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From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc: toasty@home.dragondata.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 23:17:09 GMT
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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:54 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert
<tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:

>> Why is it a shame to lose users who don't pay anything for the
>> software in the first place?
>
>Because of the economics of porting decisions made by commercial
>software companies, for one.

But if they won't pay anything for the OS how much will they pay for
some app ported by a commercial vendor?

John