[Info-vax] Use of media with licenses

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <o07ngs$lt2$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> abrsvc  <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >This is simply a manufacturing cost decision.  It is far easier to include =
> >a manual inside the box for every deliverable, than to insert one in a ship=
> >ment as a separate item.  The potential for missing that insertion is great=
> > and would be a far higher cost than including a manual in each box.
> 
> Well, it depends.  DEC always supplied manuals with everything, whether or
> not anybody needed them.
> 
> On the other hand, IBM never included manuals.  Why give the customer a 
> free manual when you can sell it to them?  IBM would never pass up any
> opportunity to bill the customer for something.  That form for ordering
> manuals?  They probably billed you for that too.

I remember an error message from an IBM Fortran compiler:

   Please contact your IBM sales representative.

SALES!