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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
Message-ID: <2989@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 14:53:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.234227.3246@cs.cmu.edu> <11191@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <00940487.15804140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <28083@mimsy.umd.edu> <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <00045@meph.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <00045@meph.UUCP> gsarff@meph.UUCP writes:

| We are in the education and training business, and have video disks and CD's
| mastered.  I was just at comdex las vegas and talked to sony, phillips and
| 3-M and all quoted about $1000 or less to master and _less than_ $2.00 per
| copy after that, sony was I think something like $1.44 for quantities in only
| the hundreds.  Interesting isn't it?  There are several things I would like
| to see on CD-ROM as well.

  If FSF were a for-profit organization they would be taking advantage
of this, and selling absolutely everything they ever wrote, in source
and compiled for a number of popular machines, and including other
non-FSF software covered by the copyleft or a similar agreement. And
for, maybe $200/year, you could get a disk every quarter with the
latest and greatest and hopefully the previous few versions of things
like gcc and emacs which have been known to stop working on some
machines when upgraded.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.


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