Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:16:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, brians@mandor.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199610162116.QAA27170@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <199610161841.LAA03387@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 16, 96 11:41:36 am"
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > If people who use FreeBSD in a commercial setting paid 2% of what it
> > would have cost them to do the same with shrink-wrapped software,
> > and private users paid 1% to the FreeBSD Projects funds, then I would
> > be much more inclined to listen to them and help them.
>
> $39.95 (the price of a FreeBSD CDROM) is 5 times the 2% figure you
> cite for most OS's, and twice the figure you cite for BSDI:
This is only from Wallnut Creek. You can find them alot cheaper than
that around.
>
> SCO
> $400/$40 = 10
> 1/10 = 10%
Is this the FULL package? Development also? Unlimted user? Networking?
> BSDI
> $1000/$40 = 25
> 1/25 = 4%
How much is the BSDI source license up to now? How much is a unlimted user
license?
NOTE: Please tell me if BSDI has went back to $1000 source and unlimted user,
I've got a customer running 2.1 I love to have source for.
>
> For what it's worth, let's include the SCO personal use CDROM:
> $20/$40 = .5
> 1/.5 = 200%
>
> > As it is now, I do FreeBSD for fun, and I work on what's fun for >me<
> > and what I think the historic necesity dictates that FreeBSD must have.
> >
> > I do not jump out of my pants to help people with their more or less
> > bizarre wishes and problems, unless it matches the above "fun" clause
> > as well.
>
> This is a different matter. It means you aren't being proportionally
> rewarded for your efforts in lieu of "fun factor as payment". This is
> a different issue altogether, and should be attacked seperately.
>
>
> Regards,
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>
Gary
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