From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 14:10:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24447 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:10:04 -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 OAA24390 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:09:45 -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 QAA27365 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:12:43 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <33516710.7D57@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:06:56 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Commercial vendors registry] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------546B1C7879D5" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------546B1C7879D5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This got out of the list (I forgot to CC it), sorry --------------546B1C7879D5 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from etinc.com by fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA26680; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 12:02:26 -0500 Received: from dbws.etinc.com (db@dbws.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA22483 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970413125924.006cbd70@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 12:59:26 -0400 To: Pedro Giffuni From: dennis Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 goal is defective...selling fewer at a higher margin is the *other* strategy that I was referring to. If you just want to get drunk, then buy the cheap stuff. Same goes for networking products. Dennis --------------546B1C7879D5--