From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 19 14:46:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15849 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15828 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA15590; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:51:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970419174231.00b0aec4@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:42:35 -0400 To: The Hermit Hacker From: dennis Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Cc: Stephen Roome , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Narvi , Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:11 PM 4/19/97 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: >On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> I will never understand the philosophy of buying inferior products because >> the salesman are nicer. The woman who sold me my Lexus was a real b*tch, >> but I love my car.......I even say hello to her when I bring it in! > > like temperments attract? first of all, you have no clue what your talking about...my temperment is fine. Forget about e-mail 'cause its more for venting than anything...but I think that you'll find my technically competent customers find me to be rather pleasant, and knowlegable and helpful. Nate's talked to me and I dont think he'll tell you that Im a fire breathing ogre as some of those who have never talked to me seem to pretend to know. If I grow impatient with some guy who finds that he's way over his head in configuring an internet router and expects me to spend the afternoon on the phone with him while he debugs his configuration, its because I'm too damn busy to deal with such horse non-sense. Or the guys that tell me they won't buy a product without source..well why should I waste my time talking to such a person, when we don't provide source? Does he think he's going to talk me into giving him source to sell a card? And the guy in the UK who thinks Im nasty because we dont take VISA, well Im sorry, but real companies have American Express and I dont like dealing with some bank in Moosebreath Montana when some banana returns a card after using it for 4 months because he finally got financing for that Cisco that he really wanted. Thats just the way it is...but those of you with your "opinions" who are not customers should TRY to be nice...because some day when your business grows you may need something that we got ... :-) Dennis