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Subject: Re: Rebel 11 Package: Price, for God sake...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:18:26 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 18:46:49, Fernando Villegas wrote:
[snip]
>Not me anymore, Dan. I have done that for too many years. In those glorious days
>I was prepared to cut the throath of my grandmother -well, she was dead anyway-
>in order to get the money for purchasing a miserable 120 Kb program at 90 bucks,
>but now, at 51 and in the pinnacle of my career, even if rich enough to purchase
>at least 1/2 of the company of Mr Ed - Just I order my agent to sell my half a
>ton in gold lingots in South Africa or else...- nevertheless I will not pay a
>cent more than, say, 40 bucks. Why? I became an stingy, mean kind of man? No,
>but enough is enough. As I write this, in my back, in a special furniture, sleep
>a high stack of CD with chess programs that I scarcely have taken. Not to
>mention the other furniture full of floppys. Etc. Too much. If I am going to sin
>again, must be at 40 US dollars, no more....

And another CM fan is born.
;-)




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