From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 23:29:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12193 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-5.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12184 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA00671; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970416232855.00703@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:28:55 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: <3.0.1.32.19970417013405.00ba9290@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970417013405.00ba9290@sentex.net>; from Mike Tancsa on Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 01:34:05AM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Tancsa scribbled this message on Apr 17: > really big corp customers who look to expand their net presence ask us for > recommendations. When we tell them about FreeBSD they look at us funny > when we tell them its free... Typically, their response is "You mean I am > going to trust my million dollar a week business to some free software ? No > way! Whats the number for SUN again ?" I suppose however, if we told them > FreeBSD was in fact $2000, plus another $1000 a year for fixes, they would > probably seriously consider it. However, our smaller business customers so why not quote them that price and just donate the funds back to the project?? I know that some people would be more responsive to problem reports with the kind of money coming in.. :) just a thought.. :) -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD