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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970417013405.00ba9290@sentex.net> from "Mike Tancsa" at Apr 17, 97 01:34:05 am
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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> some market segments would be more prone to this than others.  A lot of our
> 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

	create a line item on your invoices:

	"FreeBSD software and installation	$3,000"

	they will love you for it.   remember these people consider
	golf a sport (its a skill ;) and tax evasion a moral duty
	("only little people play taxes").
	these are different, respect that ;)
jmb