Re: Money (was Re: test version of 2.1.0 available (fwd))
Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:24:26 -0700
Tim Sailer writes:
> Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
> : I _really_ don't want money. You wouldn't believe how frustrating it is with
> : personal cheques from the US - in the best case it costs on the order of
> : $10-20 USD just to get them cached (*), and that's after arguing about it
> : with the bank tellers for 10 minutes.
>
> Actually, we could send $1 cash...
Something that might be even better is an international money order.
I'm sure there's also a fee for changing US dollars in cash to Finnish
money (my ignorance shows, I have no idea what the monetary unit of
Finland is -- herrings?). While there's a fee for purchasing an
international money order, it's at least borne by the purchaser rather
than the receiver, and the receiver gets the local equivalent of the
order as determined by the current exchange rate.