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Janus 3.0

    22-Oct-92 21:48:48
Sb: #73986-Janus 3.0
Fm: Mike Hobart 75136,1153
To: Marion J Deland 72550,1733
News item as of Monday – Apple decides to start charging users for operating system upgrades previously offered free. ($99/shot). I wonder if Apple will offer rebates for the "Updaters" which fix the upgrades. My favorite headline in a computer magazine last spring went to a MacWeek editiorial "Quality is not job 1.1.1", referring to Apple's infamous release of the wrong updater (1.1) to fix the updater (1.) to Mac O.S. 7.0. I'm not knocking Apple on the fact that you have to issue a bug fix, that's a fact of life, especially when a new release is a virtually total rewrite of the O.S. But the fact is that their bug fix introduced as many bugs as it fixed. The fix-to-the-fix-to-the-fixer did seem to get it right. Enough pontificating… Mike