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From: Spiros Triantafyllopoulos
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:53
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:53
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In article <294@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes: >Please see my article in a parallel branch of this thread for my >response about your idea of separate budgets. In brief: all budgets >are a subset of the main budget from which all money flows. It's >all tied together and money spent on personnel is money not spent >getting better food in the cafeteria (or verse-visa). In other words, if I trade in my Sparc 2 for a Radio Shack TRS-80 (OBHack: create X server for TRS-80), I'll get a pay raise? Sure, all money comes from 'above'. But saving money in one area does not necessarily mean that the money will appear in a different area, i.e. it is not a 'let's make the numbers add up' type game. If that were the case, we'd all be using VT100's off an aging VAX-11/780 and pocketing the difference. Spiros -- Spiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com Software Technology, Delco Electronics striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac.com GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904 [A Different Kind of Disclaimer]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!kocrsv01!c23st From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: who pays for USENET Message-ID: <1992Sep28.135349.27439@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> Date: 28 Sep 92 13:53:49 GMT References: <1992Sep25.172914.21475@wolves.uucp> <1992Sep25.213026.211@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <294@ulogic.UUCP> Sender: news@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Usenet News Account) Organization: Delco Electronics Corp. Lines: 21