Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:29:50 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970414102948.00b3a410@etinc.com>
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At 10:35 AM 4/14/97 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: >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 ?? You attract them by creating a market for them. Commercial vendors are driven by profit, and if the market is small it is difficult to recover your investment. Providing vendors with support for a product that has limited market will not do much....and as I said before if it is profitable to support freebsd then vendors will use whats already available (ie, the hackers list) to support it. db
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