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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: C compiler beta test release
Message-ID: <698@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 20:32:37 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.698
Posted: Thu Mar 26 20:32:37 1987
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In article <457@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU>, news@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU (news) writes:
> In article <8703221553.AA02281@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman) writes:
> >
> >If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the
> >Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or
>  ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^     ????
> 
>   Free == $150.00?????
Let's not go into this again.  If you think that you can get someone
to buy the tapes, do the copy, package, and mail them for less, encourage
them to do so.  I'd much rather have the FSF writing free software than
spending all their time playing tape duplication.  $150 is not too out
of line when we recently considered it would cost us more than half that
to distribute low volume runs of a single floppy disk.

By the way, is this going to be comp.fsf or comp.emacs?  While the C
compiler is useful stuff, it ain't EMACS, and EMACS ain't GNU.  I'd
suggest realigning these groups a bit.

-Ron