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   Date: 2 Jan 93 09:39:01 GMT
   From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
   
   >In article <9212300616.AA25845@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 
   >rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
   >   
   >From 
   >If you'd like us to develop more software, I hope you will order some
   >CDs or tapes and thus help us pay more programmers.  80 CDs, ordered
   >at the company price, will support one programmer for a year.
   
   Not counting the overhead costs, this amount would appear to be less
   than half of the 1985 dollars you paid to your first employee.  Not
   only are you a damn good capitalist, but an efficient slave-driver,
   too.

As the first paid person rms had to work on GNU software, I like to
clarify a few facts:
        - i was paid $30,000 for a year work by a third party, who
assigned me to work with rms on GNU software.
        - 80 * $400 = $32,000.

If you inflation adjust 32,000 1992 dollars to 30,000 1985 dollars,
Zeleny statement that present FSF employees are making less then half
what I was paid in 1985 is close, but the actual amount is a good bit
more then half.

FSF's employees are not slaves though.  They are all working for FSF of
their own free will.

-len