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- From: tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <9301021752.AA25483@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:52:56 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 09:39:01 GMT
- From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
-
- >In article <9212300616.AA25845@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- >rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
- >
- >From
- >If you'd like us to develop more software, I hope you will order some
- >CDs or tapes and thus help us pay more programmers. 80 CDs, ordered
- >at the company price, will support one programmer for a year.
-
- Not counting the overhead costs, this amount would appear to be less
- than half of the 1985 dollars you paid to your first employee. Not
- only are you a damn good capitalist, but an efficient slave-driver,
- too.
-
- As the first paid person rms had to work on GNU software, I like to
- clarify a few facts:
- - i was paid $30,000 for a year work by a third party, who
- assigned me to work with rms on GNU software.
- - 80 * $400 = $32,000.
-
- If you inflation adjust 32,000 1992 dollars to 30,000 1985 dollars,
- Zeleny statement that present FSF employees are making less then half
- what I was paid in 1985 is close, but the actual amount is a good bit
- more then half.
-
- FSF's employees are not slaves though. They are all working for FSF of
- their own free will.
-
- -len
-
-