From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 17:13:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D59B37B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3R0Cth13229; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:12:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI and Marketing 101 Message-ID: <20010426171255.A13209@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:47PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:47PM -0400, Dennis wrote: > I saw BSDIs retail product of FreeBSD in a local bookstore the other day, > and it became sadly clear why LINUX, although highly inferior, is so much > more widely used. Right next to Freebsd (priced at $129.95) was Mandrake > LINUX for $29.95. I should use your quote from this morning... but I won't. You don't understand channel marketing. And I'll just leave it at that. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message