From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 10:22:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA05272 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:22:37 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA05266 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:22:35 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09758; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:20:45 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508221720.SAA09758@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: your mail To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:20:45 +0100 (BST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Aug 22, 95 11:40:28 am Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1040 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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)