From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:40:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFB4F37B40F for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3031 invoked by uid 100); 16 May 2002 19:40:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15588.2835.205506.706367@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:40:03 -0500 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The road ahead? In-Reply-To: <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516151801.A47974@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020516172853.A7750@daemon.tisys.org> <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert typed: > Bob was at a convention one time, and I got to see him asked > about how shareware selling of software worked. He corrected > his interviewer: "Software is all up here, it's not real;" he > said, making hand motions around his temples, "what I sell is > manuals". Adam Osborne then did just that. Gave away an accounting system, and made a fortune selling the manuals. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message