From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 11 22:30:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (h24-66-207-153.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9F837BC2B for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01017; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:29:45 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: chad@DCFinc.com, "Chad R. Larson" , dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, Warner Losh Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:22:27 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dirkx@webweaving.org, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, chip@eboai.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004120513.WAA07804@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200004120513.WAA07804@freeway.dcfinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041123294403.00722@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi Chad, > > ...seems they were losing money @ $99.00 making it on their services > > which is just fine model for them. hi Warner you might want to parse this url for info that might assist you;-)) http://www.i-opener-linux.net/ agreed .. goto slashdot 'they might' be singing a diff tune so we might be better off waiting a week or 2.. > Seems to me the easiest thing would be for Netpliance to offer to > sell the "hackable" hardware, without the tutorial software and the > code that connects to their home base, but that instead drops into > the QNX shell at boot. .. would agree who using open source wants that crap anyhow? any hands.. nope:-)) > Charge some reasonable profit for whatever they're paying for the > hardware in the quantities they buy. I'm guessing they could make > money on the unit at $499. Would you buy one at that price? I most likely they could make $$ at $200 - $250 IMHO.. but depending on what it did @ $499 would make a diff in the decision pattern that is for sure.. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > probably would. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message