From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 01:37:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26326 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inter03.lion.net ([195.50.148.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA26321 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lucky.lion.de ([192.109.89.2]) by inter03.lion.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA22885; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:34:50 +0200 Received: from willi.lion.de by lucky.lion.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id KAA20147; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:36:25 +0200 Received: from localhost by willi.lion.de (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA28742; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:35:41 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:35:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Haas To: dennis Cc: Pedro Giffuni , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970413214534.00b3b9e0@etinc.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > 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. SCO's Free OpenServer comes to midn ;-) > 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. To come back to my original question: How do you want to attract vendors and convince them that FreeBSD is a high quality product ? My idea, starting with some kind of support for vendors, doesn't semm to make it here, so where are those great ideas ?? Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org