From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 11 22:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775BA37B795 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07804; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:13:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200004120513.WAA07804@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener In-Reply-To: <0004111146520R.00719@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> from dreamwvr at "Apr 11, 0 11:38:16 am" To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:13:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: dirkx@webweaving.org, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, chip@eboai.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, dreamwvr wrote: > ...seems they were losing money @ $99.00 making it on their services > which is just fine model for them. Seems to me the easiest thing would be for Netpliance to offer to sell the "hackable" hardware, without the tutorial software and the code that connects to their home base, but that instead drops into the QNX shell at boot. Charge some reasonable profit for whatever they're paying for the hardware in the quantities they buy. I'm guessing they could make money on the unit at $499. Would you buy one at that price? I probably would. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message