From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 14:08:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24337 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA24327 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem09.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.39]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA27361; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:11:01 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <335166AA.4C31@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:05:14 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dennis CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry References: <3.0.32.19970413125924.006cbd70@etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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