Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 01:19:17 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: eivind@yes.no, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates Message-ID: <199805050719.BAA16851@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199805050632.BAA04056@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199805050540.WAA06755@rah.star-gate.com>
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At 01:32 AM 5/5/98 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >The biggest problem that I have with criteria like $1M or somesuch >is that kind of info is often proprietary, and serious businesses >often don't freely release such info in detail. > >-- >John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, >dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, >jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. There's a bigger problem still. What about new products? Or small ones that can't command a high price on their own but could e added to a larger package? Eric claims that the site is designed to interest businesses in selling copies of "open source" software. But those businesspeople aren't dumb; they don't want to hear about the items that 20 vendors are already selling. They're looking for "sleepers" and for new opportunities. But if a product has to be grossing $1M to get in the door, forget that. I also noted, when talking to Eric, that all of the Linux vendors make it difficult or impossible to do a Net install. (Red Hat, for example, can't use PPP. What percentage of Net users out there have something other than a dial-up connection? And Debian and Slackware can't do it at all, to my knowledge.) So, they'll sell more disks -- even if they have a smaller installed base. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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