Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:20:45 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199508221720.SAA09758@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9508221156.Q1082-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Aug 22, 95 11:40:28 am
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In reply to Jonathan M. Bresler who said > > [snip] > > ....Last year, when the Santa Cruz Operation raised the price of SCO > Unix, the move caused barely a stir among the company's users. The > reason: Because SCO's products were significantly cheaper than Novell's > and Hewlett-Packard's, some technology managers had a hard time > convincing management that the SCO products were on a par with those of > other vendors. But at a higher price, SCO's product gained respect. > > [snip] > [end] > > > perhaps this is the attitude that dennis and others have been > referring to--if i dont pay a lot, i dont get squat. (can we sell these > people "Fresh Air" ?? ). without a high dollar price tag and an > acceptable name, the just cant deal with it. > BSDI used exactly the same argument when they bumped their prices recently. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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