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To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) 
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:44:23 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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I am lost here . I have been looking for price quotes on the source
and I can't find any . 

Couldn't we pretty please take this sort of stuff to chat and the 
Holy Shit War too.

I thought hackers for techie stuff.

	Cheers,
	Amancio


>From The Desk Of John-Mark Gurney :
> 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 $1000 a year for fixes, they would
> > probably seriously consider it.  However, our smaller business customers
> 
> so why not quote them that price and just donate the funds back to the
> project??  I know that some people would be more responsive to problem
> reports with the kind of money coming in.. :)
> 
> just a thought.. :)
> 
> -- 
>   John-Mark
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> 
>   Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD