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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!not-for-mail From: "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@snads.lkg.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:08:19 -0400 Organization: Systems & Communications Sciences, Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <335CD463.102F@snads.lkg.dec.com> References: <E8ssJ8.Mqr@news.interactive.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970419143119.789C-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: snads.lkg.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6721 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39524 Todd Graham Lewis wrote: [deleted] > The phrases "rock" and "hard place" come to mind. If they drop their > prices too low, the moronic =FCbercorporate types will assume "$1k per > license? It must be crappy". If they raise them too high, clueful typ= es > will ask "Is BSDI really worth $3k/per box more than FreeBSD or Linux?"= > and usually answer "no". > = > For better or worse, the free Unices are pushing people like SCO and BS= DI > out of the low-end Unix market. I'm ambivalent about the phenomenon, b= ut > I think it's occurring. Have "they" considerd charging a lot of $$$ for the OS to the = corporate types and giving away the os to those who want it for = free? Something analogous to what Netscape does with it's free = UNSUPPORTED versions of Navigator. Those who want to pay for = it can do so, those who don't want to pay don't have to. -- = Michael C. Cambria Voice: 617 643 6250 Systems & Communications Sciences, Inc. Fax: 617 643 6251 138 Wright Street Internet: cambria@world.std.com Arlington, Ma. 02174 CompuServe: 71552,2531