From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 07:52:10 -0400
From: Pete Fenelon pete@cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!
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At 06:56 AM 8/17/95 -0400, Kilbs wrote:
>This is a "piece of string" issue, here. How much, specifically,
>*should* the manuals and CD-ROM cost, then? How much do you pay
>for the Linux equivalent? At what point do you draw the line and
>say, "Right, anything costing $x or more must be bug free"?

This is a very good point. Lots of people who lack the time, inclination or
facilities to get the system off the net go out and buy one of those
user-patronising doorstop Linux books with a couple of CD-Roms in the back,
and/or buy ; I can quite easily imagine someone spending a couple of hundred
dollars on a Linux installation and docs....

As for "if it costs >$x it must be bug free" -- every software house I've
ever heard of would be destroyed by lawsuits by now :-)

>
>And how much have you paid for those four disk images?

Exactly.  :-)

pete
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