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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Tue, 10 May 2011 04:43 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:42:54 +0300
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com>
Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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On Mon, 9 May 2011, Steve Crocker wrote:
> A simpler and more pragmatic approach is to include a statement in the boilerplate of every RFC that says, "RFCs are available free of charge online from ..."
>
> The copyright rules would prohibit anyone from removing this statement.  If someone pays $47 for a copy and then reads this statement, he is unlikely to pay $47 again.

I suspect those who are inclined to pay $47 for an RFC are very 
unlikely to read any boilerplate statements on the RFC.

While I could live with this, I fear adding more boilerplate just 
creates more boilerplate and not much else.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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