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- From: kubo@birkhoff.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.055058.18949@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:50:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.201747.28886@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan2.215318.18942@husc3.harvard.edu> <C09qwG.8no@news.udel.edu>
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- In article <C09qwG.8no@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu
- (Bill Johnston) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan2.215318.18942@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >
- >>FSF does not give away its CD-ROM or distribution tapes;
- >>but up until this time, it has been able to explain charging for them
- >>as "distribution fees"; with the introduction of the differential
- >>pricing scheme for individuals and businesses, this explanation no
- >>longer holds any water.
- >
- >Okay, I'll bite ... how would a pricing differential prevent FSF
- >from using a "distribution fee" explanation, if that was indeed
- >the only way to "explain" a fee?
-
- The "distribution cost" is the same in both instances. Therefore,
- any justification of the differential must rest on either business
- considerations or semantic legerdemain (can you say, "charitable
- contribution?"). Either way, FSF comes out showing the familiar
- family traits of its openly for-profit cousins.
-
- >--
- >-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
- >-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
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- tal kubo@math.harvard.edu
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