Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:42:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: terry@lambert.org, brians@mandor.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199610162242.PAA04030@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <505.845495098@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Oct 16, 96 09:44:58 pm
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> In message <199610161841.LAA03387@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > >> If people who use FreeBSD in a commercial setting paid 2% of what it > >> would have cost them to do the same with shrink-wrapped software, > >> and private users paid 1% to the FreeBSD Projects funds, then I would > >> be much more inclined to listen to them and help them. > > > >$39.95 (the price of a FreeBSD CDROM) is 5 times the 2% figure you > >cite for most OS's, and twice the figure you cite for BSDI: > > Terry, you must be the only person on the planet who doesn't actually > get in touch with reality on a regular basis :-) > > The FreeBSD project doesn't get $39.95 for each CD sold. We get a > place to run our development machines. That's the point of view from the FreeBSD side of the fence. >From the user side of the fence (which was where I was attempting to come from here), they pay 4%-10% (or 200% of the non-business SCO UNIX cost) to "somebody". You could argue that they are complaining to the wrong folks, but not that they have no right to complain because they haven't paid for it. Anyway, it's a hard thing to fix; I certainly don't have a pat answer for the problem. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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