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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: GNU-sources -> what NeXT can do about it...
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Date: 26 Feb 90 01:48:10 GMT
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How would it be if ppl at NeXT would download these sources
to one of the ftp-server sites?
After all they are not supposed to make any profit on the GNU
software. If they charge 150$ for an optical disk and the
copy procedure thats fine, but as they have internet access it
should be no more than 3 man-minutes to initiate a ftp-transfer
running over lunch...
And three minutes NeXT-workforce should be within the range of
service they can give for free. After all the GNU-ppl worked 
longer on writing the basics of the compiler, editor etc.

Ronald

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