Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:55:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd & commerce (Re: Informix on FreeBSD (maybe)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971230104201.6999C-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <34A7D892.771A100E@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
=> That's why Linux have better commerse success then FreeBSD.
=>
=> I think, for supporting commmerce users of FreeBSD, must exists
=> firm, which sell commerce version of FreeBSD, which must be identical
=> to free version, + some customization and preinstalled software
=> and provide aggressive marketing of FreeBSD.
This brings up a question which I have thought of a time or two.
I had a fairly good level of success giving away some fbsd 2.2.1
cd's (thanks, Jordan!) to companies around the Austin area. The
success was enough that I thought of retailing the os along with
system support. What would FreeBSD's "official" stand be if I
started charging for the os? Something like:
The AEI FreeBSD Operating System:
$X,XXX loaded and installed
$X,XXX for 12 months of OS maintenance, including
os upgrades
$X,XXX for System Administration training
I already did something like this with two clients in this area.
I gave them a copy of the 2.2.1 cd and my consulting company
billed them for setting it up. So far, I only had two people I
spoke with refuse to look into fbsd. Some moved from sco and
some from that "other" free un*x. For the rest (I only gave 16
total), they were either educational, had NO computer system, or
moved from windoze (these are the ones I am happiest about). The
limiting factor was they had someone who knew something about
un*x already. I haven't really tried a brand new to un*x company
yet.
But I digress...
How would the FreeBSD Project feel if they found some rogue
company in Austin was charging for FreeBSD, installing, training,
and support?
Lee Crites
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