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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: GNU on tape now available in europe
Keywords: GNU scuzzy source
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.000747.237@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:07:47 GMT
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wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:

>Am I just crabby this AM, or do these prices for tapes seem
>somewhat high? After all, a 60 meg cart. tape is at most $30,
>an hour of professional time perhaps $50, handling another $30.
>It would seem to me something on the order of $125 a tape would
>be adequate compensation for selling someone else's efforts
>without royalties to the authors.
>Clarence Wilkerson

i already answered those questions in some mails, but anyway:
first, as you might have read in the posting, the prices are
identical to those of the FSF. second, you must consider the
costs of >300MB diskspace, the time to administrate such an
amount of sources and the extra cost of the streamer (which is far too
small to backup my 700MB+). i also need to buy another disk in the
not-too-far future, there isn't much space left. you could actually
download everything 'for free', but that's not practical for the
X sources or for people with 2400 bps modems.
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