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- From: bruno@athena.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall)
- Subject: Re: On knocking .edu folks (was: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:45:40 GMT
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- witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.222228.19299@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>,
- >
- >| Do tell us, Robert, how much did *you* (as a non-.edu domain person)
- >| contribute to MIT since you're using X? How much money did you send
- >| the FSF when you installed gcc? How about when you installed emacs?
- >
- >Sorry pal. Nice try, but you loose. Perhaps I'm stupid, but I've actually
- >*bought* releases from FSF instead of UUCPing them, or I get them from people
- >who donate a portion to the FSF. I buy the printed manuals, instead of
- >printing them off myself. I've bought distibutions from MIT for X,
- >including the manuals. I've sent my $100 to the 386BSD folks.
-
- Bought? Wait a sec here... I don't recall seeing any mention of FSF
- stuff being for sale. In fact, it isn't for sale. From the preface to
- the emacs manual:
-
- "... If you find GNU Emacs useful, please *send a donation* to the Free
- Software Foundation. ...".
-
- So if you believe that you've bought yourself a copy of gnu*, you're
- wrong. You just sent a (somewhat misguided) donation to the FSF.
-
- >I also *pay* for my connectivity to the network...
-
- That's nice; so do I.
-
- >But thanks for proving my point for me. It's obvious that the thought
- >of paying for something is so foreign to you that you honestly can't
- >believe that anyone would actually do it.
-
- Better not have children, Robert, they'll co$t you so much you might
- not have enough to pay for your net.access. On the other hand, maybe
- that wouldn't be a bad thing entirely.
-
- Bruno
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