JOSH%YKTVMH.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Josh Knight) (09/05/85)
> What happened to the old days when people would pay you to find > bugs? Remember Knuth Vol 1, 2, & 3? Didn't Knuth offer $0.25 > per error? I thought it was a buck. Didn't most people frame the checks rather than cashing them? Josh Knight IBM T.J. Watson Research Center josh@yktvmh.BITNET, josh.yktvmh.ibm-sj@csnet-relay.ARPA
bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly) (09/19/85)
> What happened to the old days when people would pay you to find > bugs? Remember Knuth Vol 1, 2, & 3? Didn't Knuth offer $0.25 > per error? He still does! He offered $2.56 for anyone finding errors in preprints of The TeXbook, and I think $5.12 for anyone finding a bug in TeX. To answer someone else's question, yes, the only person I know who got one of these checks did frame it! -- Bi|| {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly Ke||y UW-Madison, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706 "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley