From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 13 3:19:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from amanda.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (hide14.nhs.uk [194.6.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECF515058 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Greg.Quinlan@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk) Received: from greg.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (qmh-00553.qmpgmc.ac.uk [10.1.20.82]) by amanda.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA49689; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:16:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <003601befdd1$e2f5bbe0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: "Phil Regnauld" Cc: "Pat Lynch" , "Adrian Wontroba" , References: <001601befdcb$20e94720$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> <19990913114732.51670@ns.int.ftf.net> Subject: Re: More SCO Propaganda Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:22:30 +0100 Organization: Queen Marys Hospital (SWLCT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Regnauld > Well, that hasn't much to do with their positive attitude towards > Free Software. > > Not that I'm denying the fact that their marketing sucks, and that > their products suck. > > Phil, remembering the time when SCO seriously wanted people > to pay $1000 for a TCP/IP stack. I just hung up on them. > I remember that :).... $1275 (RRP) for TCP .... $1275 for NFS.... hahaha I think it was a bit like buying a car; What?? You want wheels! (TCP) and Seats??? (NFS) ..... Sorry this model does not come with an air-bag!!! (Source). Although we do provide break-down assistance (Loads of Patches). They even charged you more if you got the OS on 1/4 " tape, rather than floppies... (so of course the customer bought the floppy version.) I was always delighted when on disk 13 of 43 floppy disks .... "I/o error unable to read distribution floppy" :() ...(did not get SCO on CD back then) The good old days... ;) I must absolutely agree "their marketing sucks" big time... I still think Microsoft owns 40% of SCO?! You'd think the marketing would have been as slick as MickySoft! Or was it deliberate sabotage? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message