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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.165246.18961@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 21:52:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.054314.18948@husc3.harvard.edu> <C0ALHs.9yv@news.udel.edu> <1993Jan3.195425.13436@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan3.195425.13436@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
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- >In article <C0ALHs.9yv@news.udel.edu>
- >johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
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- BJ:
- >>>>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?
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- MZ:
- >>>Surely you can answer this question yourself.
-
- BJ:
- >>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.
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- KA:
- >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....
-
- Thanks for saving me the trouble, Ken. It never ceases to amaze me,
- just how far ostensibly literate people may be willing to go, in order
- to gainsay the obvious.
-
- >--
- >"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)
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-