From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 09:39:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA12547 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12537 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:39:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA19783 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:38:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:38:48 -0500 Message-Id: <199602011738.MAA19783@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> 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