ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) (10/16/84)
The following is posted for a freind. He would like to receive replies to this posting. I would not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The adds in Macworld are pretty terrible, as a rule, but most of them I can put up with. I have just seen the November issue of Macworld, however, and there are a couple of advertisements there that just appall me. On page 155, there is an ad by "Investware". Have you heard of Bill Atkinson's program SCREENMAKER? I will post it on net.sources for those of you who do not have it. It lets you take ANY macpaint picture and make of it a startup screen that will replace the screen that says "Welcome to Macintosh". These people at Investware have the gall to charge $40.00, not for a program to make your own pictures, but for ONLY ONE PRE-MADE picture. That's just going too far. Elsewhere in Macworld, there is evidence that people have noticed the mac font editor program that has been around for a while... Some people have actually made fonts that they think are worth $100 per font. I think that this is piracy of the worst sort, because I have about 4 disks of PUBLIC DOMAIN fonts that are just as good, or better! Only the BEST programs should sell for as much as $100.00, and I think that the prices that some people are charging for things on the mac are simply ridiculous. Dave Kliman (215) 387-7918