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Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:00
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john@dhh.gt.org writes:

> What is the market value of a copy of emacs?

I don't know the definition of "market value", but if emacs could not
be downloaded freely from the net, I think you could probably sell it
for about $100, looking at comparable products.

But by that standard, a liter of oxygen would also command a pretty
high market value... :-)

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)
Date: 1998/11/19
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