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Thank you!

Peter
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Gunn" <dennisg@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: [L-OT] Re: OT What kind of people throw away their Logic CD?


> >  > After following this thread about returning the V4 CD for a while, I
> >>  just cannot resist asking: What kind of people throw away their Logic
> >>  CD?
> >snip
> >>  What if your computer dies and all your backups fail. In that case,
> >>  your CD is the *only* thing that'll get you back on the road...
> >>
> >>  You don't throw away a book after you've finished reading it either,
> >  > or do you?
> >>
> >
> >Well, as we are going OT...
> >
> >I think what people have been kinda dancing around here is this (f*ck
> >it, i'll say it, and they can come and sue me :-) )
> >
> >It is *lots, lots, lots* more likely that someone who says they 'threw
> >away' their Logic update is actually one of the people that has obtained
> >a dodgy copy of a Logic updater and doesnt want to pay the full upgrade
> >price to Logic 5.
> >
> >Personally, I doubt that anyone would be that stupid.
> >For a start some (but not all) of the update CDs required either a
> >previous installation of Logic Audio.
> >Also, I dont know anyone who is still running Windows 95 with Logic 4.5.
> >
> >This means that anyone who bought (like me) Logic Audio back in 1996 (i
> >think) and has upgraded each time has also upgraded their OS. Each time
> >their OS is upgraded they need to do a fresh Logic install. This
> >requires (in my case) a copy of Logic V3.0, then V3.5, then V4.0, then
> >V4.5, then V4.8. Maybe one or two less, I dont remember exactly the
> >updates I needed... maybe I didnt need to install V4.5- i could just go
> >from V4.0 to V4.8... I stopped using Logic Windows a while back it all
> >gets hazy.. where is my wheelchair?
> >
> >My point is though that the CD is *often required*.
> 
> None of this is true on the mac.