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- From: jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: First GNU CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <63123@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:39:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.070340.5959@catfish.az05.bull.com> pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) writes:
- >How do these prices fit with the charter of the _Free_ Software Foundation?
- >I just can't see how these prices bear any remote relationship to distribution
- >costs.
-
- They don't. As I understand it, the FSF uses a high distribution charge
- as a way to support the FSF. The (mildly underhanded) thought is that
- a donation is hidden in the materials charge, thus slipping unnoticed
- through the paws of the corporate bean counters.
-
- Of course, if you really cared about the $$'s you would just buy the GNU
- CD-ROM from Walnut Creek (1-800-786-9907) for $40.
-
- -Jerry
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