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

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From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1991 14:31
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schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) writes:

>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.

My guess is almost zero. If I would have a check written out
by Don Knuth I would never cash it. Just proudly display
it. And I guess that is what happens in general.
After all the amounts of money are not that large.

Victor.
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From: eijkhout@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?
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