From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 23:24:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11918 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11913 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9ac.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.76]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA21967; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 02:24:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970417062426.0072f784@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 02:24:26 -0400 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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!"