Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?

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From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1991 09:38

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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 away.

It would be interesting to know how much ``buckets of money'' Knuth
has paid to people which had find errors in TeX, MF, or one of the
books.

I would be glad if this would be done with GNU software -- I would be
rich then ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

--
Joachim

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Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

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Subject: Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?
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