Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:21:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712050121.SAA29771@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <348839a9.79109795@mail.cetlink.net> from "John Kelly" at Dec 4, 97 11:17:09 pm
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> >> 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? But if they won't pay anything for the cellular telephone how much will they pay for air time from some commercial vendor? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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