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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Message-ID: <D0nMF7.6Ez@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 16:13:55 GMT References: <D0HBxK.6FM@kithrup.com> <D0IKBv.BuK@calcite.rhyolite.com> <3cdmo9$q89@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Lines: 30 In article <3cdmo9$q89@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes: >In article <D0IKBv.BuK@calcite.rhyolite.com> vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com >(Vernon Schryver) writes: > >> I think BSDI's new pricing policy is incredibly stupid and >> shortsighted, [...] > >Can you add some details here? The last information that I got >sounded ok but is somewhat outdated. (That was US$ 999 for source and >US$ 200 - 300 for a binary license.) What has changed? As of 10/3/94, new licenses vary in price depending on the size of the customer's organization. Organizations larger than 10 people pay by the "maximum number of users per machine," with a single machine's binary license costing from $545 to $7995. Source costs commercial customers larger than 10 people $20,000. They've grandfathered existing customers with the old price list. I've only seen the new price list in the mailing list and not on paper despite being a paying customer, so perhaps they've wised-up and fired their newly hired marketing disaster, but I doubt it. They have an exceptionally lame story that big customers will not buy their product unless it costs a lot of money and that since they've raised the price big companies have been falling over themselves to buy. It's a crying shame they do not understand how Intuit and Sun Microsystems became $B companies, but they have a right to blow their own chance in any stupid way they choose. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com