Newsgroups: comp.org.sug Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Sun User Group Exhibit Only Fee Message-ID: <1990Oct24.173612.23683@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Oct19.152134.22517@world.std.com> <1375@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 17:36:12 GMT In article <1375@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: >It's worth pointing out that at least SunExpo and UNIX Expo are >commercial ventures by commercial corporations, and so are required >to make a profit to continue their existance. Surely that changes the >economics of how much a tutorial costs? Probably not much; tutorials are often the single biggest source of revenue even for the non-profit conference organizers (who often have other projects, which don't pay their own way, to support). -- The type syntax for C is essentially | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology unparsable. --Rob Pike | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry