🚀 go-pugleaf

   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.


I should guess that GNU would approve of this policy.  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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