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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:05:14 -0700
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
To:        dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commercial vendors registry
Message-ID:  <335166AA.4C31@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
References:  <3.0.32.19970413125924.006cbd70@etinc.com>

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dennis wrote:
> 
> At 09:27 PM 4/12/97 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> >dennis wrote:
> >>
> >> What does selling Freebsd-only products have to do with anything?
> >That the idea of a commercial registry :-), we are not going to register
> >products for other platforms we can't emulate, are we ?
> >> And who said anything about lowering costs. There are (at least) 2
> >> strategies for selling product...there's cheap wine and fine wine. If
> >> you are looking for vendors to sell cheap wine for freebsd, then you
> >> are correct.
> >>
> >It's a matter of simple economy, if the good wine has a very low price
> >it *might* sell better than both the cheapest (MS-like) or the finest
> >(SGI-like).
> 
> Thats a rather poor example. Sure, you'd buy a Mercedes if it cost the same
> as a Saturn, but realistically it costs more to build and maintain a Mercedes
> and its worth it, if you can afford it. Your premise that selling *more* is
> the
You don't understand, we already ARE cheap, why lose that advantage when
there are already other (preferred) cheap options? 

> I was referring to. If you just want to get drunk, then buy the cheap
> stuff. Same
Wrong, buy the expensive one until you don't distinguish which is the
cheap and which is the fine one. That is called "style".


Pedro.

> Dennis



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