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Article #959Re: "official" FSF position on apple
From: Jerry Frain
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:18
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:18
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anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes: > They charge $2000 for a computer that costs $400 to make. It sounds > like they make a lot more money on their hardware than software. This is only blatantly obvious, since every computer manufacturing company in the world does it. Sure, once you have the schematics and the parts list, the machine is actually quite cheap. But a lot of research and development goes into getting these two things. Let's not forget to mention that the consumer also has to pay for the marketing of the product, and probably a half-dozen other things I'm forgetting to mention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Frain, Systems Programmer | "Back off man, I'm a scientist." Kansas State University | frain@cis.ksu.edu Department of Computer & Info Sciences | ...!rutgers!depot!frain
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!cis.ksu.edu!frain From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple Date: 15 Sep 92 15:18:27 GMT Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> References: <1992Sep15.051438.28757@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu