[Fsfe-uk] Re: [Debian-uk] Copy of a full page Ad?

[Mark Sheppard]

On 2002-02-13 (Wednesday) at 07:46:39 +0000, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:39:53PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> > Linux User are after an add again (full page this time)
> > 
> > They're still trying to get me to pay for the mark-up, but I said we'd
> > rather spend money on hard disks.
> > 
> > Anyway, the copy needs to be done ASAP, to be ready tomorrow.
> 
> I'm probably being cynical here, but I suspect they give such short
> notice simply to "encourage" us to have them do the artwork.

That might be some of the reason, but I'd have thought that a bigger
one is that they've been trying to sell the space and only decide to
give it away at the last moment when they haven't found a buyer.

Mark.