From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 8 16:25:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA05480 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 16:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zen.nash.org (nash.pr.mcs.net [204.95.47.72]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05285 for <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 16:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alex@localhost) by zen.nash.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA17882; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:52:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:52:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199606082252.RAA17882@zen.nash.org> From: Alex Nash <alex@zen.nash.org> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net Cc: pst@shockwave.com, chris@usa.nai.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: What about... was: Re: -Stable, credit card donations to FreeBSD, Inc. Reply-to: alex@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Removed freebsd-current from Cc list ] > I think Paul's analysis vastly oversimplifies the issue. Anybody could > take a CD, and offer it at a cheaper price. Doesn't mean they'll sell > enough of them to dent walnut creek. > > Perhaps WC could stick a sticker on the box that says "Some amount of > money from this sale goes to furthering development". > > Or a higher-priced subscription plan. I think Paul hit the nail on the head. There are other games in town, not all of them called FreeBSD (one was recently referred to as Unix A on -hackers). Newbies who don't understand the difference between "Unix A" and FreeBSD will end up using Unix A because they can pick it up on CD for $5 (or whatever the sale-of-the-week price is on Unix A). > Or how about selling access to an "exclusive" mailing list, that is shared > with the developers? I would hate to see FreeBSD users split up into economic classes. Recently, someone posted to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc asking if anyone could copy the WC CD for her. Apparently she was a college student that wanted to try FreeBSD, but couldn't afford the $40 asking price. > The bean-counters here have a hard time with "donation", but wouldn't > blink 2x if it was called a "support list", or whatever. Sad, but very true :( Alex