Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:36:09 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, toasty@home.dragondata.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <19971205143609.57742@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19971205000015.58063@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 12:00:15AM -0500 References: <199712042148.OAA00918@usr02.primenet.com> <348839a9.79109795@mail.cetlink.net> <19971205000015.58063@vmunix.com>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 12:00:15AM -0500, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 11:17:09PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:54 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert >> <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: >> >>>> Why is it a shame to lose users who don't pay anything for the >>>> software in the first place? >>> >>> Because of the economics of porting decisions made by commercial >>> software companies, for one. >> >> But if they won't pay anything for the OS how much will they pay for >> some app ported by a commercial vendor? > > You seem to be missing the point. I run FreeBSD simply because it's > the best operating system for my needs! Price is really not that > relevant - if FreeBSD costs as much as NT workstation, I'd almost > certainly buy it anyways! I think there's a good point to be made here. I started using FreeBSD mainly because Walnut Creek asked me to. I was a quite satisfied BSDI customer at the time (and I suppose that, for the next three weeks until my support contract runs out, I still am). Nevertheless, I didn't even install BSD/OS 3.0 when it arrived. In fact, I don't even know what I've done with the CD-ROMS :-( So I paid for BSD/OS and preferred to run FreeBSD. Greg
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