From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 6 14:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085B837B406; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f66LeF361632; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:40:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200107062140.f66LeF361632@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com, tedm@toybox.placo.com, ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <000701c10452$ca818600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B4560DD.428634F8@softweyr.com> <20010706020341B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010706142817.A61100@xor.obsecurity.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 14:28:18 PDT." <20010706142817.A61100@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:40:15 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I was thinking about this the other day. I don't think there's very > much money likely to be made in "value-add" CD distributions in the > near future -- that requires hard work to add value, and that requires > someone being paid to do it. The value-add may have nothing to do with the contents of the CD's. Consider that having a well-run subscription service might be valuable, or perhaps better physical packaging in other than the standard jewel boxes. Or adding some addition disks as part of the set of other useful software or documentation. Perhaps providing sets of pre-built picobsd distributions with floppy images? Maybe with hardcopy versions of the handbook or other documentation. Or perhaps someone with phone-in tech support to help people install, run and support FreeBSD. There's a number of different price points and and value propositions you could shoot for. The tricky bit is finguring out which of the alternatives people want. :-) louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message