Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:44:23 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704170744.AAA00505@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:28:55 PDT." <19970416232855.00703@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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I am lost here . I have been looking for price quotes on the source and I can't find any . Couldn't we pretty please take this sort of stuff to chat and the Holy Shit War too. I thought hackers for techie stuff. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of John-Mark Gurney : > Mike Tancsa scribbled this message on Apr 17: > > really big corp customers who look to expand their net presence ask us for > > recommendations. When we tell them about FreeBSD they look at us funny > > when we tell them its free... Typically, their response is "You mean I am > > going to trust my million dollar a week business to some free software ? No > > way! Whats the number for SUN again ?" I suppose however, if we told them > > FreeBSD was in fact $2000, plus another $1000 a year for fixes, they would > > probably seriously consider it. However, our smaller business customers > > so why not quote them that price and just donate the funds back to the > project?? I know that some people would be more responsive to problem > reports with the kind of money coming in.. :) > > just a thought.. :) > > -- > John-Mark > Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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