Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:08:00 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970418180256.4592l-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3686.861396610@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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.
Agreed, not a problem with this. Probably wouldn't take much
to have some sort of 'I just installed StarOffice on FreeBSD' message
sent to StarDivision as part of the install? Maybe have some sort of
PGP tag attached to it so that the ppl at StarOffice knew that the
install was from a CD? *shrug*
I was just using StarOffice as one example...
What I'm more suggesting (and with all the talk of 'Commercial
Projects' going on in the lists, this may be in the works...) is a
CD that I could purchase from Walnut Creek, put into a cdrom at the
office and install instead of Windows95 for 'that new guys machine'
which, altho *not* Windows, would have a comfortable feel to it...and
a pretty consistent one regardless of how many different ppl did the
install process.
The thing about StarOffice is its a good example of a Unix
OfficeSuite that has the benefit that the 'old WinWord 6.0' documents and
Excel are loadable...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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