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- From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Message-ID: <1560@hcshh.hcs.de>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 17:21:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1848@adagio.UUCP>
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- In <1848@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
-
- >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$. they say in the ad, that a contribution to bill jolitz
- >>is contained in this price....
- >>
- >Well, DM 399 sounds rather high, but don't forget that people have to
- >make a living as well. As soon as you start advertising the stuff, you
- >*have* to charge money just to make ends meet. The smallest ad in UNIX
- >Magazin costs over DM 600; last time we put an ad in there, it led to
- >about 3 orders. And we sell our tapes for DM 200 - when you add in the
- >cost of the tape, we lost money on the deal. We came to the conclusion
- >that we should stop advertising.
-
- good, until now i thought, 386bsd is NOT something to earn money from ...
- if the jolitz's intention was to do so, they could went the BSDI way, but
- they didn't!
-
- 2nd, where is the need to advertize for something which one can get for
- FREE everywhere ?
- it's just for getting (too much) money from those poor souls without
- usenet/internet access ....
-
- >As you see, nobody's making much money. The charge is not for the
- >software, just for the handling.
-
- a tape costs 50,- dm or 25$ in single quantities, so you count 350,- dm
- for not making money ???
-
- >[...] If you want 386bsd from me, you can call us up
- >and get it via uucp for nothing.
-
- this was the intention of this all, wasn't it ??
-
- >The FSF charges $200 for their tapes, by the way.
-
- i know, and this is well invested money, same applies to 386bsd, if the
- jolitz's would carge some money for 386bsd, it would be well invested too !
-
- hellmuth
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