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In article <92125@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> gnu@cygnus.com (John Gilmore) writes:

Here are the features of this offer that try to offset the public-goods nature
of free software:

   Each site sending $2000 will get a copy of the compiler directly from
   us, and will also get its name engraved in bits on the CDware
   mass-distribution disk :-).

Appeal to status/value of name recogition.

   We deliver software ready to run: integrated, configured, compiled,
   and easy to install, with printed documentation.

Ease of use/physical product.

   The price includes one year's software support, to a group of up to
   five people at your site, starting when you receive the software
   from us.

The right to complain.

   While doing the work, we'll send you monthly progress reports by
   email.

Information.

   If we have checks or PO's totaling $200,000 by the end of February,
   we promise to deliver simultaneously with the official release of
   Solaris 2.0.  (If fewer than 100 sites are interested, we will
   still deliver to those people, but sometime later.  In that
   situation, you can get a refund if you aren't happy with our
   progress, three months after the official Solaris 2.0 release.)

Peer pressure.

   The 100 `heroes' who sign up early get a better rate, for believing
   in us and in the power of free software to improve the world.

Buy Now, Save Big!

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