Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:56:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Cc: terry@lambert.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, brians@mandor.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199610162356.QAA04264@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610162116.QAA27170@main.gbdata.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Oct 16, 96 04:16:01 pm
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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. OK, then take 4%-10% and convert it to 2%-5% for $19.95, and for the business user, you still hit your 2% threshold with room to spare. > > SCO > > $400/$40 = 10 > > 1/10 = 10% > Is this the FULL package? Yes. > Development also? Yes. GNU tools, just like FreeBSD. > Unlimted user? Yes... as "unlimited" as SVR4 gets... > Networking? Yes. > > BSDI > > $1000/$40 = 25 > > 1/25 = 4% > How much is the BSDI source license up to now? Who cares; we are talking about users who don't hack the kernel. > How much is a unlimted user license? $1000, last time I checked. > 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. Clearly you are a candidate for "FreeBSD SNAP tester", with your preoccupation with compiling things... 8-). 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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