Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:32:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Subject: Re: Purify/Insure++ Message-ID: <1818.884759528@time.cdrom.com>
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> I guess this begs the question as to what they would consider a large > enough market in order to do the port? Same for pretty much any commercial > port, how many ppl would have to commit to purchasing a copy to make it > viable for them? I asked them this question myself, and they said: 1. If they can get $1M up-front to do the port, the'll do it outright (start saving those box-tops now, kids!) and not worry about sales. 2. If they're not paid $1M up-front, they'd settle for moving 1500 units a year at around $1K a copy. That's about 150 copies a month and probably still well out of reach for something in this price range (and not all sales months are created equal, which means you'd have to do far better than this on certain months). Add to this the fact that Purify has changed hands at least 3 times in the last 24 months and may well change hands another 3 times before they're done and you have a very very unstable sales and support picture. In other words, "Forget it." If we want Insure or Purify in the free software world, we're going to have to do our own versions and hope that there aren't too many software patents on the process. Jordan
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