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in other words, ibm would rather have us spend our money (and our university's money) on compuserve rather than on thinkpads? Alden S Klovdahl / alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au / fax: +61 62 49 05 25 Sociology Arts / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200 On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Randy Whittle wrote: > At 1:50 AM 11/21/95, Christopher Cunningham wrote: > > >I would like to make a suggestion on behalf of a large number of > >ThinkPad users who have access to the Internet although not > >necessarily through Compuserve. I would like to suggest that IBM > >release software updates to its ftp/Web site with the same degree of > >timeliness that it releases software to the Compuserve support forum. > >Most recently, IBM has released Win95 MWAVE drivers on Compuserve but > >failed to put them on the ftp/Web site (it is also interesting to note > >that IBM also releases software updates to Compuserve before posting > >on its own dialup BBS). > > I just thought I'd ad a couple of pennies in here... :) > > You and the list may or may not be aware of this, but basically > everytime someone logs into Compu$erve and goes to the IBM forum--IBM makes > a little chunk of change. For *very* many companies, Compuserve is a > profit center--a little money machine. Compuserve splits a portion of the > fee to the companies with forums on Compuserve, because they know when > people go into those forums, that is the reason for calling Compuserve in > the first place. > > Given this information, its not particularly rational for IBM to > steer anyone to its BBS or an FTP site--the bottom line is that they make a > buck when you dial in to Compuserve. I'm sure they'd prefer that you call > Compuserve! > > ----- ____________________________ > Randy Whittle whittle@usc.edu | WWW Hope Page: | > USC Graduate School of Business (Fight on 'SC!)| http:// | > "Did you really think you could call up the | www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle/| > Devil and ask him to behave?" ---------------------------- > -Fox Mulder on T.V.'s "X-Files" speaking to an occult practitioner > > >