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From: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
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Date: 5 Dec 90 23:38:14 GMT
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In article <2279.275bf1a4@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>In article <2989@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
[ FSF could make $$$ selling CD-ROMs with all their stuff ]

>Sounds to me like you have identified an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Wasn't there an outfit called "Young Minds" or some such that did/is
doing exactly this? I saw their ad in one of the UNIX trade rags.
However, they were asking ca. $500 for a CD of PD UNIX software.
I think that's a little steep, unless they were somehow adding value (?) 

How about a CD-ROM collection of the SIMTEL20 archives? That wouldn't
even be very hard to do, since SIMTEL puts out listing
files that let you automate the task of mirroring their archives
(as wuarchive.wustl.edu does). I bet a LOT of people without ftp
access to the Internet would like to get a copy of the SIMTEL20
archives...especially if the price was only a small multiple of the
cost of a CD-ROM.


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