Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:32:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Message-ID: <XFMail.970930003257.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970929214926.674A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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Hi "Jamil J. Weatherbee"; On 30-Sep-97 you wrote:
>
> I was taking a look at Calderas web page noticing that their OpenLinux
> Standard is $399, and wondering who would be willing to pay such a price
> for a commercial Linux
...
Actually, if you raise the price to $700, it will sell even better.
If you reduce the number of releases to 1 per year, you can charge even
more.
I doubt FreeBSd will ever be able to do that, on that scale.
Justification:
a. If it is free it is useless. You get what you pay for. Why would
anyone give away anything which is of any value?
b. The fewer releases, the more ``stable'' your product. If you doubt
this statement, search for some high-level sales aids for NiceTry.
Or Slowlaris, for that matter.
c. BSD came from Berkeley, it is a hack. Linux is systemV like. It has a
heritage of Large Company. Caldera was founded by Mr. Noorda, he is
the radical rebel of Corporate America. Made billions with Novell.
Calder Linux must therfore be a good thing.
Now, BEFORE you jump down my throat, please evaluate the technology I
employ in my professional work :-)
BTW, join the Debian developers list. You will see a volunteer project
gone mad with commercialism...
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