[Info-vax] Licenses on VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listing scans

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/15/21 9:40 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-12-15 kl. 13:58, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>> On 12/15/21 12:45 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <j1stj6Ff9q7U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>>>> In Denmark the average salary for doctors at public hospitals after
>>>>>>> 8 years of employment is 16-18 K$ per month.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you sure of that?  McDonald's pays more over here. That is
>>>>>> barely the minimum wage everyone here bitches about all the time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you notice "per month"?
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>> And according to Google that works out to be $2400 a month or about
>>>> $28,000 a year.
>>>
>>> Did Arne write dollars or crowns?
>>
>> He used a dollar sign but put a K there.
> 
> And how do *you* write a short-hand for "one thousand dollars"?
> 
> I do not understand how you could misunderstand that...
> It some some fun anyway... :-)
> 
> 
>> I assumed Krone
> 
> That is written DKR, just like USD. Maybe it had been clearer
> to say "192 K USD" instead of using the common "$" sign.
> But I thought that anywone would read "$" as "US dollars".
> 
> Yes, "$" is used for some other "dollars" apart from USD also,
> but not for any other non-dollar currency, as far as I know.

Sorry, I didn't realize Danes were paid in US Dollars.

> 
> 
>> but could be
>> wrong.  Does Denmark also have dollars?
> 
> I think that you very well know that it doesn't.
> And that makes it even more weird that you managed to
> misinterpret what Arne wrote.If you are saying he ma\eant
> 

I have seen people use the "$" with a prefix/suffix to signify
currency where the national standard is not the dollar.

If you are saying he meant that as 16K US Dollars than the
doctors over there are making a lot.  In which case I would
think that  just like over here it is the money that attracts
them and not some notion of public service.

bill