Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Shipping. To get it shipped outside of the U.S. you have to authorize > the FSF to add any amount they chose for shipping, without telling you > what is. Surely I can't be the only one who thinks this is highly > suspicious? In fact I am suspecting that it may even be illegal under > the jurisdiction I reside in. [...]
Not suspicious, but I share your concerns about it. (If the manuals were free software, I might care more.) Nick Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> used to have GNU manuals for sale in the UK. Other than that, http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ publish some and maybe can tell you where to buy more. > As the FSFEurope is a "sister" organisation to the FSF I thought they > might sell the item I was after, they don't. And worse the things they > do sell they sell via email. Did email magically become more secure > while I was sleeping? Maybe. Did you sleep through GnuPG's creation? ;-) > No wonder businesses don't take free software seriously when it is > promoted by organisations who can't even setup a proper online store. Bah, they take proprietary software seriously and that is also promoted by organisations who can't even setup a proper online store. I know - I get called in to replace them with more secure ones! > Once again the Gnu decide the non-Americans are not worthy of using > free software. No, it's just that the FSF doesn't serve Europe well in this case. > Also do the Gnu get more or less money from directly selling manuals > than if I bought it from another vendor (such as Amazon)? I don't know, but Amazon is a particularly bad place to buy: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html Although FSF has ended its boycott in 2002, Amazon continued software-patenting in Europe into 2003... and beyond? http://eupat.ffii.org/news/03/amaz0818/ http://eupat.ffii.org/patents/effects/1click/index.en.html Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, trainer, koha dev, online shop maker, GNU/Linux, debian, gobo, gnustep, mailing lists. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
