Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:50:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <3686.861396610@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:01:47 -0300." <Pine.NEB.3.96.970418144604.4592R-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> Then again, so far, there are only two of that even consider this > to be a reasonable idea *shrug* Well, not unreasonable, I simply think it's simply a MORE reasonable idea to package up and make the Linux product work for now. I've worked for major ISVs and I know the Fear and Loathing that the prospect of Yet Another Platform to support generates (hint: We hate the very idea - it's just More Work(tm)). Why make ISVs jump through those hoops for a market which is *known* to be significantly smaller than the Linux market and for which potential sales are a complete unknown? Make the Linux product work and give them a place to check "FreeBSD customer" for each sale, then maybe they'll change their tunes once they see that the FreeBSD market is actually present and willing to run the Linux product until such time as a native version comes available. Jordan
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