Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:35:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970414103212.27936A-100000@willi> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970413214534.00b3b9e0@etinc.com>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > YOU dont understand marketing. You make something *expensive* by > adding value. Companies that have cheap products (ie some of my > competitors) do so because they can't or dont know how to add > value. "dumping" products into the free market is a last resort, when > you fail to compete in the value-added market. SCO's Free OpenServer comes to midn ;-) > If this is what you are > hoping for then you are resigned to mediocrity. The purpose of > attracting commercial vendor SHOULD be to get quality products... > not junk. FreeBSD is loaded with junk already. You should want > supported products...not basic drivers supported by some guy in > the urals who has a 50 hr a week commitment elsewhere and fixes > stuff only when his wife and kids are at grandmas. To come back to my original question: How do you want to attract vendors and convince them that FreeBSD is a high quality product ? My idea, starting with some kind of support for vendors, doesn't semm to make it here, so where are those great ideas ?? Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org
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