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In article <1993Jan3.195425.13436@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:

>In article <C0ALHs.9yv@news.udel.edu> 
>johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:

BJ:
>>>>Okay, I'll bite ... how would a pricing differential prevent FSF 
>>>>from using a "distribution fee" explanation, if that was indeed
>>>>the only way to "explain" a fee?   

MZ:
>>>Surely you can answer this question yourself.

BJ:
>>Businesses often offer similar products - or even the same 
>>product - at different prices to different customers.  There
>>is certainly no law (or even tradition) that dictates that 
>>products with the same cost of manufacture or distribution
>>must be sold for the same price to all customers.

KA:
>If things with the same cost of distribution are not being sold for the same
>price, in what sense is the price a "distribution fee"?  One would think that
>a distribution fee would have something to do with the cost of distribution....

Thanks for saving me the trouble, Ken.  It never ceases to amaze me,
just how far ostensibly literate people may be willing to go, in order
to gainsay the obvious.

>--
>"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Leftover Turkey!
>On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Turkey Casserole
>    that she made from Leftover Turkey.
>[days 3-4 deleted] ...  Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
>   -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
>
>Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."