From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 19 21:27:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03249 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 21:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03242 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 21:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9ah.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.81]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA21514; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:26:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970420042655.008d4610@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:26:55 -0400 To: Stephen Roome From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:34 AM 4/20/97 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: >On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: >> Ah, but the customer isnt always right...... > >This attitude is why I bought SDL, not etinc. I think it was L.L. Bean who said in a catalog: "You will never win an argument with a customer." This was explained to me as being more correct than "The customer is always right", because obviously they aren't allways right (but you still want them as a customer). -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"