Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:38:48 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602011738.MAA19783@etinc.com>
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>> Your analysis illustrates why 80% of new businesses fail in the first >> year......your understand of the costs of acquisition, inventory, marketing, >> general >> admin, warranties and sales is quite amazing! Plus you have to weigh the time >> and resources against that which could be spend on much higher margin product >s. >> Thanks for straightening me out! > >Well, Dennis, some of us are still wondering how long you are going to >survive with your firm grasp of "customer contact & communication" :-) I dont consider anyone on this list a customer....'cause you'd rather build something than buy it. There's nothing wrong with that, but its clear from this thread that I couldnt make anything selling to you folks....so why would I bother? Real businesses think about different things than you guys..... oh...i forgot about factoring in support and development costs....... dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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