[ale] GAH

james at sumners.ath.cx james at sumners.ath.cx
Wed Jul 7 16:50:03 EDT 2004


There is a significant difference between including it in a text book
and selling just the text of it for $3.00 in a "protected" format.

Hell, it seems that no one even knows what the fourth ammendment is
about.

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:17:37PM -0400, Vincent Fox wrote:
> 
> Oh come now, America excels in selling public items in fancy packages.
> You can get a text copy for free of course, but plenty of books
> have been sold with the Constitution and of course some history
> text thrown around it. I have several in a box in storage.
> Were they free? Nope.
> 
> Not that very many actually READ it, whether free or not.
> I'd bet 999 out of a 1000 people couldn't tell you what
> the 3rd amendment is about.

-- 

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds



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