From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: Re: Fair Price for Linux ? Date: 19 Jan 1993 12:25:07 GMT
In article <JWINSTEA.93Jan18120807@fenris.claremont.edu> jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu writes:
>In article <1373@dsbc.icl.co.uk> mat@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk (Matthew Roderick -
> KID01) writes:
>
> [ reproduced advertisment deleted ]
>
> Does anyone thing 15 pounds is a fair price for 2 disks ? (base system)
> or are these people making a profit from Linux ?
>
>Well, aren't you sort of jumping to conclusions that the 'base system'
>is only two disks? It's very possible that the base system is more
>than just a bootimage and a rootimage.
I think the only way Matthew can find out is to send them a check for the
base system and see how many disks are in it ,as to wherever or not it's
good value depends what your net access costs ,I get an internet host
address from demon for 10 pounds +vat a month plus my dialup line costs
--anthony
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