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   Date: 5 Aug 91 12:43:53 GMT
   Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
   From: rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
   Sender: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu

      In article <20650@alice.att.com>, howard@alice.att.com (Howard Trickey) writes:

      > I had the pleasure of being at Stanford with Don Knuth during
      > much of TeX's gestation period.  I cannot let stand the
      > implication of this last statement, that perhaps Knuth had
      > planned all along to make buckets of money from TeXbook sales,
      > and that's why he gave TeX and Metafont awa

   I should guess that GNU would approve of this policy.  

Just for the record (and a few months late), the GNU Project does NOT
approve of this policy.  The source code of manuals should be
copylefted, jsut as the source code of programs.

thanx -len

   Giving away
   programs for free gives people the opportunity to test all available
   programs.  Taking it in again by charging money for the manuals ought to
   encourage programmers to produce better manuals, wouldn't it? After all,
   you don't absolutely need the TeXbook (or the LaTeXbook) unless you want
   to dig deeply into the subject, and either are not prohibitly expensive.

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