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- From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Date: 15 Aug 92 10:42:45
- Organization: CSUA/UCB
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- Message-ID: <PHR.92Aug15104245@soda.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In-reply-to: grog@adagio.UUCP's message of 15 Aug 92 07:20:44 GMT
-
- Don't misunderstand me. If you want 386bsd from me, you can call us up
- and get it via uucp for nothing. But it costs more money than you
- think to maintain archives and supply ``free'' software (yes, we
- really do put that in parentheses in our literature). The FSF charges
- $200 for their tapes, by the way.
-
- The $200 goes the FSF charges for a tape mostly goes to pay the FSF's
- programmers, documentation writers, and administrative staff; it
- covers much more than the costs of making and sending out the tape.
- Buying tapes is one way companies, etc. are able to help out the GNU
- project. Making and shipping a tape is not much more expensive than
- making and shipping an Emacs manual (well, maybe two manuals) and the
- FSF charges around $20 for those. Manuals too do much more than cover
- the manufacturing and shipping costs---the FSF's distribution arm
- exists solely to generate funds for further GNU development and
- maintenance.
-
- Paul Rubin
- former FSF staff programmer
- and still sometime GNU hacker
-