Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:22:27 -0600 From: dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com> To: chad@DCFinc.com, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: dirkx@webweaving.org, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, chip@eboai.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Message-ID: <00041123294403.00722@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> In-Reply-To: <200004120513.WAA07804@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <200004120513.WAA07804@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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hi Chad, > > ...seems they were losing money @ $99.00 making it on their services > > which is just fine model for them. hi Warner you might want to parse this url for info that might assist you;-)) http://www.i-opener-linux.net/ agreed .. goto slashdot 'they might' be singing a diff tune so we might be better off waiting a week or 2.. > Seems to me the easiest thing would be for Netpliance to offer to > sell the "hackable" hardware, without the tutorial software and the > code that connects to their home base, but that instead drops into > the QNX shell at boot. .. would agree who using open source wants that crap anyhow? any hands.. nope:-)) > Charge some reasonable profit for whatever they're paying for the > hardware in the quantities they buy. I'm guessing they could make > money on the unit at $499. Would you buy one at that price? I most likely they could make $$ at $200 - $250 IMHO.. but depending on what it did @ $499 would make a diff in the decision pattern that is for sure.. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > probably would. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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