Re: downloading to Mac

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

Re:

> Subject: Re: downloading to Mac       Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:12:05
> From: Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Organization: Oberlin College

[ major snippage ]

> Joe Kohn is a really great guy, but there's no reason you should pay
> for software (i.e. System and utilities) which you can get for free
> from the Internet......

Here are three reasons: convenience, reliability and time. If you
have the EQUIPMENT and KNOWLEDGE and TIME and INTEREST to get stuff
off the Internet from various sites, fine. But if you just want to
get particular software AS ADVERTISED, already recorded on a 3.5"
disk, shipped to your door in a reasonable amout of time at a
reasonable charge, Joe will do it.

Not everybody has the equipment, knowledge, time and interest to
fight the problems of getting stuff off the Internet. It's easy for
some; it's not easy for all.

My ][ cents.

- Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Club - casa@unm.edu

(I have no financial connection with Joe Kohn's business except as
a happy reader of Shareware Solutions II and an occasional customer.)