From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 27 15:27:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C05837B422; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05075; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:27:42 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010427174630.031a1450@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:50:01 -0400 To: "Mark Sergeant" , Julian Elischer From: Dennis Subject: Re: BSDI and Marketing 101 Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200104270506.f3R565X02949@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> References: <3AE8F9F8.72FF174F@elischer.org> <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> <3AE8F9F8.72FF174F@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:06 AM 04/27/2001, Mark Sergeant wrote: >Then again you could also download an iso of 4.3 for free, go to BSD Mall and >get a 4 CD set for 39.95 etc. The thing you pay for when you are buying these >box sets is usually the manual, some also include a certain amount of >telephone >support etc. So while one may be 29.95 and the other another 100 dollars more >you may not get a book / as good a book with the 29.95 version. Also you >may or >may not get phone support etc with the one you pay 100 for, I know many >companies that would pay 129.95 for an OS that you get a book, support n cd's >for, hell I know companies that buy Windows 98 / 2000 :P I guess you missed the POINT, which was that mandrake was selling the same LINUX functionality for < $30.??? You dont get your foot in the door for $129. All you get is a return from the bookstore in 6 months. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message