Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 23:05:17 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> To: "Advocacy List" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Selling older versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809050305.UAA25749@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, 04 Sep 1998 06:27:34 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I think a deep discount may be better than free. At the very least >> shipping should be covered. > >If we ever do something like a big 2.2.6 give-away again, we're >certainly going to have to ask for this much. It cost tens of >thousands of dollars to send all the 2.2.6 CDs we sent and that's not >something the accountant lets you do very often. Usually once. :) my very personal opinion is that it should not have been done for free. At least shipping should have been covered. To much uncertainty of where those CDs will land to bare such high cost sending them out. I do think however that the discount sale of older versions not only will help Walnut Creek, but will help us do better advocacy. For someone who has never seen FreeBSD, as long as it installs, been one version behind is not much of an issue. I also think that it should be avaiable as subscription also. Also how many people asks to get FreeBSD "on the cheap". Those people could always get the previous version. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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