Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:00:23 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsdmall.com prices Message-ID: <46DF0AD7.9090401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <151819.93138.qm@web51812.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <151819.93138.qm@web51812.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Nicole wrote: > --- deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >> Michael Hernandez wrote: >>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what >> the >>>> order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is >> just >>>> a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then >> I >>>> have to respect, but also criticize that. The good thing is about >>>> *you* supporting the Project, is that *you* can chose what parts >> of >>>> development to encourage. If you donate raw cash, they will spend >> it >>>> on ice cream ;), if you donate a piece of hardware, they will >> utilize >>>> that thing for testing, which is good if your company relies >> heavily >>>> on FreeBSD driver efficiency and stability for that type of piece. >>>> However, if you really encourage advertising FreeBSD, you should >> make >>>> promo stuff as cheap as possible. >>> All the while you can still download the releases for free so what >> are >>> you complaining about anyway? At first I thought you were just >> asking a >>> question and trying to gain insight but now I see you're just >> trolling. >>> I don't really understand what you are trying to gain through this >>> ranting. >> And I actually was. I don't know where you detect offensive speech. >> You must be >> misunderstanding something. Or I don't care how you look at my >> messages, even it >> it's like This is an unmoderated freebsd-chat, and I'm trolling all >> over it, sue >> me... >> >> If you want to use FreeBSD, you can, and for free. Same for >>> NetBSD, OpenBSD, various distributions of Linux...... what's the >>> problem? You can't realistically expect to get everything for no >> cost. >>> Or maybe you need clarification between the terms - Free does not >>> necessarily mean "at no cost to you" (although as you know you can >> still >>> download and use FreeBSD at virtually no cost to you....) >> Thanks, but that was evident to me. I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but >> I'm not THAT >> much of a newbie. > > I would like to add on, point out, that cdrom.com was likely one of > the sole reasons FreeBSD is here today. They supported FreeBSD and gave > it marketing and a face. How? Via your purchases, back before you could > so easily download it. > > Now, yes, prices have gone up, or at least feel that way. But even if > you, as an individual feel that its worth saving 40.00 to max out your > DSL for a a bit and make a few cds at home, if you use FreeBSD at your > company, you should get them to subscribe to the CD's! Maybe as an > individual it's not cost effective for you. But there is no reason to > let your company off the hook if you can help it. > > > > Nicole > Good points. Kind of what I asked for in the first place.
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