cjhoward@watmath.UUCP (Caleb J. Howard) (07/07/87)
Howdy,
I dunno, but it seems to me that is a program, even a game,
were to cost, say $25.00 (Canadian), if it was documented well and
the documentation was usefull after the first twenty minutes, if
upgrades were available to be copied onto the origional disks from
dealers, and lastly, if there was no copy protection at all on the
disks, then I'd be buying far, far more software than I am. What's
more, Owr pirating cousins might as well.
I mean it. I don't have a lot of money to spend. If a good
game cost about the price of two, or three good albums, and there
was so much in favour of buying it, my money would be spent on
games. As it stands, I've bought precisely one software package
since I got my machine in oct, 85. I bought dpaint. The copy
protection killed it, so now I'm using a copy I made with
Marauder from a friend. Apart from that, I have nought. (nought
much I don't ;^})
I'd pay up to $150.00 for a good word processor. If it was
well documented and I knew that I wouldn't have to pay every
time it's debugged for an upgrade, I'd be happy. Elsewise
it just ain't worth it. I'll use my C64 with PaperClip.
Caleb. J. Howard