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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
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Date: 3 Jul 90 00:49:35 GMT
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I don't understand something.  If authors don't eat, then how can they write?
And if they don't have a roof over their heads, then how can you read the
paper they've written on?

I understand that software writers aren't supposed to eat except by being
paid for debugging what they've written for free.  But one doesn't have
such expectations of authors.  If a book is not debugged before publication,
people complain.  And the marketplace for books is different from the one
for software.  Publishers make big investments in providing food and rent
to book authors, as well as bringing the books to where potential customers
can see them (and a few of these customers don't even have computers).
Does RMS think that publishers should have gone bankrupt centuries ago?
-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
This is me speaking.  If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.