From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 17:50:45 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 62C7637B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3R0ofa27445; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:50:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI and Marketing 101 Message-ID: <20010426175041.C19809@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com> <20010426171255.A13209@dragon.nuxi.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010426195703.03222e50@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: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426195703.03222e50@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:00:35PM -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 08:00:35PM -0400, Dennis wrote: > At 08:12 PM 04/26/2001, David O'Brien wrote: > >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. > > Actually I do. Channel marketing requires a marketing base, which they dont > have. You have to establish a base before you can gouge. What you fail to realize is computer stores and bookstores *want* and have requested the $129.95 product. They want even more expensive ones than that. The really don't care for $29.95 products as the margins are too low for their liking -- unless they feel the product is a "leader" one. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message