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Article #73662Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?
From: Byron Rakitzis
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1991 15:24
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1991 15:24
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In article <1991Aug5.143147.4425@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes: >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. The story goes that when Einstein lived in Princeton, NJ, he would write letters to the local storekeepers asking them to cash the checks he had written so that he could balance his checkbook! It seems DEK's checks are being treasured in much the same way. I certainly know I'm not going to cash my check from DEK! -- Byron Rakitzis byron@archone.tamu.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,e000dc74a809d597 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e000dc74a809d597 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-05 12:43:46 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!donald!byron From: byron@donald.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"? Message-ID: <19864@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 5 Aug 91 15:24:48 GMT References: <20650@alice.att.com> <1991Aug05.093811.17404@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> <1991Aug5.143147.4425@csrd.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University. Lines: 21