Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 22:55:12 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Freeware reward????? Message-ID: <199510230255.WAA08501@etinc.com>
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> >dennis writes: > > Given that most > > commercial companies have trouble doing commercially acceptable products in > > this area > > , whats the chance that some guy with way too much free time can do better? > >They can't do it better, usually, unless some kind of system can be built >to make free software a profitable business. Cygnus is an example of this; >I think there other alternatives like funds into which people can donate >money for a specific piece of free software to be built, like this specific >case, although in lack of suitable fund we need just to make promises. > >If the drivers are completed, within a year we will see which method turns >out to be the best. If cards supported by freely available drivers sell >more then than those with no freely available drivers, in FreeBSD >environment, we can make conclusions. Until that, we can only speculate. >Maybe we should drop -hackers off the receivers? Its not how much you sell, its how much you make on what you sell. Selling more is easy....just drop your prices. Economics 101. Overseas, freely-available has more value because there's a support problem for US-made products. I understand that. We usually give better deals to overseas dealers because of it. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25
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