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From: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Advertising on comp.emacs
Message-ID: <787@otto.lvsun.com>
Date: 13 Dec 88 06:13:38 GMT
References: <8812091624.AA14077@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> <200@serene.UUCP>
Reply-To: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff)
Organization: Las Vegas Sun
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In article <200@serene.UUCP> rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) writes:
>In article <8812091624.AA14077@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> tower@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>~Please note that if you have to buy tapes from someone, buying them from
>~FSF helps create more GNU software.  All the surplus from tape sales
>~goes to pay FSF programmers and technical writers.
>
>And if you buy emacs from Unipress, the surplus goes to paying
>Unipress programmers and technical writers.  What's the point?
>
>Rick Farris   RF Engineering  POB M  Del Mar, CA  92014   voice (619) 259-6793

I believe he was refering to buying GNU software from FSF vs. buying GNU
software from ISPI (or whoever they are).  The tapes cost about the same
amount from either source, but when you but them from FSF the surplus
goes towards new GNU software and upgrades, whereas the surplus from
ISPI's sales goes god knows where (I guess it goes to those hard working
operators who mount the blank tapes 8-) 8-).

On the same note, you mention that the surplus from Unipress sales goes
to programmers and technical writers.  This is not completely true.  The
bigger portion of the surplus probably goes to stockholders, managers,
salespersons, advertising, and (of course 8-) customer support, among
other things.

something tells me that a source licence with restricted distribution
rights for Unipress Emace is a tad bit more than $150. 8-) 8-)

								Rex.

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