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In a bunch of articles, a bunch of people write about cd cost.

My $.02:

Music CD's were supposed to eventually be cheaper than albums (anybody else
remember that promise?).  However, the prices have stayed high
because and cassette sales have gone up.

CD-ROM prices should go *down*, not up.   The SUG CD-ROM was, IMHO,
too costly.  (The Houston User Group for Suns, of which I
am president, built it.  SUG national set the pricing, etc.)  I
don't know how much it *should* have cost, but it should have
been cheaper than the tape by at least $14.  (Blank tape costs
~$20 in quantity, blank cd costs ~$6.)


At any rate, I know *I'd* subscribe to a GNU cd-rom-of-the-month
if it were $100-200 or so, if it had the following things:

DVI files for all .tex[info] documents,
PS files for all .tex[info],
ISO filesystem so I can use it on any of our machines,
and, depending on the legality,
MIT X11R? distribution + patches, and
Everything by Larry Wall :-).

and maybe the faces database just to make things interesting. :-P

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