From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 21:48:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5682937B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 16385 invoked by uid 666); 27 Apr 2001 04:52:05 -0000 Received: from i177-040.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.177.40) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 04:52:05 -0000 Message-ID: <3AE8F9F8.72FF174F@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:47:52 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI and Marketing 101 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010426185733.023fbec0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010426195703.03222e50@mail.etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > I know that 0 X 129. < anything X 29. Denis is certainly right about this.. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message