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Re: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)

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From: karl lehenbauer
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 12:27
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In article <1444@laura.UUCP>, jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel) writes:
> Wrong. We don't make profit. In fact, our laws in gemany do not allow
> universities to make profit. ...
> We have to spend money for running the backbone and for getting a
						  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> computer on which we can do serious work, because our university
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is not willing to pay or contribute system-time anymore, and noone
> is donating us anything.

Call it not making a profit, but the fees are being used to subsidize your
research computing, assuming these remarks refer to unido.  Presumably connect
and monthly fees to unido would be lower if this were not the case.
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-- uunet!ficc!karl
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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)
Summary: unido apparently uses fees to subsidize their research machines
Message-ID: <4892@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Jul 89 12:27:03 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <263@icdi10.UUCP> <1444@laura.UUCP>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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