From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 18:47:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07999 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07994 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA25553; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:53:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970413214534.00b3b9e0@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:45:36 -0400 To: Pedro Giffuni From: dennis Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:05 PM 4/13/97 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> >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". > YOU dont understand marketing. You make something *expensive* by adding value. Companies that have cheap products (ie some of my competitors) do so because they can't or dont know how to add value. "dumping" products into the free market is a last resort, when you fail to compete in the value-added market. If this is what you are hoping for then you are resigned to mediocrity. The purpose of attracting commercial vendor SHOULD be to get quality products... not junk. FreeBSD is loaded with junk already. You should want supported products...not basic drivers supported by some guy in the urals who has a 50 hr a week commitment elsewhere and fixes stuff only when his wife and kids are at grandmas. *Dennis covers his head* db