Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!tmpmbx!scuzzy!src 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: <1991May04.194930.16172@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> Date: 4 May 91 19:49:30 GMT References: <1991Apr27.121134.12725@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> <11419@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <25952@ttidca.TTI.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Contributed Software Lines: 60 alter@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes: >In article <11419@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson) writes: >} [thinks it's too expensive] >The article to which Mr. Wilkerson refers did mention something about >GNU tapes for export to *Europe* so that may up the prices a bit... no, i *am* in europe (germany, to be precise). we are starting to distribute on tape because our public login is reaching it's limits. also V.32 and PEP users can't download at high speeds, since we only have a normal HST. >Here's an alternative (to the list of tapes at $210 each): [quite cheap exabyte tapes from uunet] after some email between me and the FSF i can now tell you the following: - they think it's *not* a good idea to (re)distribute their tapes for *less* than $200. they fear that they'd get less revenues themselves, because they would probably sell less tapes. the prices they charge *do* include an implicit donation used to create more free software. - they suggested to distribute under the same conditions as they do (basically). we will. - the excess revenues i may make with distributing tapes will go into hard/software to improve our ability to distribute free software (we desperately need another big disk) and/or will be donated to the FSF to help them. perhaps i should note that i'm a cs student with a little business starting on the side, and you might agree that it's not exactly inexpensive to have a 386/33 UNIX machine with 760MB (on 3 disks), streamer, modem etc... further, i would like to mention that our tapes are not just copies of the FSF tapes. we also archive many sources from USENET and fetch many from other sources (which is quite some tedious work, i tell you). all these are included on the appropriate tapes. we also have non-FSF tapes like The Net Tape which we thought are a good idea. if someone wants to join the net he basically gets everything he might need on a single tape and doesn't have to hunt for the various programs floating around. another question that i don't know an answer to yet, is: what currency should i request?? until now i just used the order form of the FSF which says US$. perhaps ECU would be better for europe? what does the net think? a new version of the order form that adresses all that will be posted in a few days. -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 [voice!] public UNIX source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home