From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 10:15:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15058 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15037 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:15:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA20448; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:16:35 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:16:35 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602011816.LAA20448@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: Michael Smith , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) In-Reply-To: <199602011539.KAA19544@etinc.com> References: <199602011539.KAA19544@etinc.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [ Michael's discussion of why Dennis is making more $$ than he let's on ] > I'm not going to get into an production argument with the great > business minds on this list! 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 products. Hmm, I guess that's why the company I helped start up 5 years ago is doing about $5mil+/yr. in gross sales. But, it wasn't something I wanted to do as a career since all they do is build PC boards, cables and the like. :) > Thanks for straightening me out! I don't think it was intened for you so much as the rest of the list, but bviously you're the only person on the list who can understand these sorts of issues, so we should all bow to your great knowledge. Nate