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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.195425.13436@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:54:25 GMT
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- In article <C0ALHs.9yv@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
- >>>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?
- >>Surely you can answer this question yourself.
- >Businesses often offer similar products - or even the same
- >product - at different prices to different customers. There
- >is certainly no law (or even tradition) that dictates that
- >products with the same cost of manufacture or distribution
- >must be sold for the same price to all customers.
-
- If things with the same cost of distribution are not being sold for the same
- price, in what sense is the price a "distribution fee"? One would think that
- a distribution fee would have something to do with the cost of distribution....
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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