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- From: pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble)
- Subject: Re: First GNU CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.112645.29459@catfish.az05.bull.com>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 11:26:45 GMT
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- In article <63123@mimsy.umd.edu> jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) writes:
- >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.
- >
- It almost sounds like FSF is making a profit on their software and then
- putting that profit back into development. I must have misunderstood you,
- that would be acting like a regular company, and RMS has spoken against that
- many many times.
-
- >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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- I was wondering about that, actually. Is there a significant difference in
- the contents, I wonder?
-
- ++PLS
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