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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Message-ID: <1848@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 07:20:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de>
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- In article <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
- >In <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
- >
- >i can understand chris. yesterday i saw an ad in the german "unix magazin",
- >where a company named "tuttle design" sells 386bsd 0.1 on tape for 399,- DM,
- >which is about 250 US$. they say in the ad, that a contribution to bill jolitz
- >is contained in this price....
- >
- Well, DM 399 sounds rather high, but don't forget that people have to
- make a living as well. As soon as you start advertising the stuff, you
- *have* to charge money just to make ends meet. The smallest ad in UNIX
- Magazin costs over DM 600; last time we put an ad in there, it led to
- about 3 orders. And we sell our tapes for DM 200 - when you add in the
- cost of the tape, we lost money on the deal. We came to the conclusion
- that we should stop advertising.
-
- >conclusion: in every piece of software, i will put an equivalent copyright
- > notice in. i spend an enormous amount of time writing an pccons
- > device driver (watch out for it), and i do not like it, if some-
- > one else is making money with it.
-
- As you see, nobody's making much money. The charge is not for the
- software, just for the handling. I don't know what kind of copyright
- notice would protect against that, even if it made sense.
-
- >if anyone in germany thinks of buying from them, contact me, i will cut
- >a tape for you if you contrib 250US$ (or whatever you can give) DIRECTLY
- >to the jolitz's.
-
- Sure thing. And if you put in the tape for free, I might even take you
- up on it :-)
-
- >don't misunderstand me, my contrib is on the way to bill & lynne, and if some-
- >one sells 386bsd and gives ALL the money to the jolitz's, there is nothing
- >wrong with it - i would like some sort of centralized version/revision
- >management for 386bsd >= 0.2, and in order to do it, they need money !
-
- Don't misunderstand me. If you want 386bsd from me, you can call us up
- and get it via uucp for nothing. But it costs more money than you
- think to maintain archives and supply ``free'' software (yes, we
- really do put that in parentheses in our literature). The FSF charges
- $200 for their tapes, by the way.
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