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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
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Date: 4 Dec 90 23:57:40 GMT
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In article <2989@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 
>   If FSF were a for-profit organization they would be taking advantage
> of this, 
 [cheap CD-ROM publication costs]
>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.

I've only read the Dr. Dobbs version of the Manifesto and the
copyleft distributed with an obsolete copy VMS EMACS, but it
seems to me that they explicitly encourage people to provide
the service of wider distribution of FSF distributions.  Their
condition is that nothing be left out.

Sounds to me like you have identified an entrepreneurial opportunity.

dan herrick
herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com


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