Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 02:24:26 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970417062426.0072f784@mindspring.com>
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At 09:14 PM 4/16/97 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> i'll add another few items to my list from last night... >> >> 1). chop the price in half to $19.95. > >It wouldn't help. This would reduce FreeBSD to the price of the >shovelware CDs, and Walnut Creek CDROM has done quite a bit of price >experimentation here. Every CD they've discounted this steeply has >suffered a _decline_ in sales rather than what you'd expect. There is >some odd aspect of human nature which works against making things too >cheap - the product suddenly becomes equated with "junk" or something. Well, "It's expensive: It *has* to be good!". I'm told this is a fairly well known happening. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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