From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 16 08:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27835 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27798 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:58:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14578; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:59:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199801161659.LAA14578@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Robert Withrow , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: Purify/Insure++ In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:34:50 PST." <5428.884968490@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:59:19 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk jkh@time.cdrom.com said: :- Seriously, I think HP and IBM both ponied up some serious cash to get :- their own ports done. They are being typically short sighted. There are 1000's of programmers who would help them port for free to Linux and/or FreeBsd, and would be willing to sign a non-disclosure to do it. They could sell a $599 support-is-extra license for purify and (I think) sell skads of them. And their cost of support and their configuration control hassels would be essentially nil. They could make reasonable money, but the chicken-and-egg fallacy makes them think that there is no demand for this product. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM