freebsdmall.com prices

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

Nicole wrote:
> --- deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Michael Hernandez wrote:
>>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what
>> the 
>>>> order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is
>> just 
>>>> a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then
>> I 
>>>> have to respect, but also criticize that. The good thing is about 
>>>> *you* supporting the Project, is that *you* can chose what parts
>> of 
>>>> development to encourage. If you donate raw cash, they will spend
>> it 
>>>> on ice cream ;), if you donate a piece of hardware, they will
>> utilize 
>>>> that thing for testing, which is good if your company relies
>> heavily 
>>>> on FreeBSD driver efficiency and stability for that type of piece.
>>>> However, if you really encourage advertising FreeBSD, you should
>> make 
>>>> promo stuff as cheap as possible.
>>> All the while you can still download the releases for free so what
>> are 
>>> you complaining about anyway? At first I thought you were just
>> asking a 
>>> question and trying to gain insight but now I see you're just
>> trolling. 
>>> I don't really understand what you are trying to gain through this 
>>> ranting.
>> And I actually was. I don't know where you detect offensive speech.
>> You must be 
>> misunderstanding something. Or I don't care how you look at my
>> messages, even it 
>> it's like This is an unmoderated freebsd-chat, and I'm trolling all
>> over it, sue 
>> me...
>>
>> If you want to use FreeBSD, you can, and for free. Same for
>>> NetBSD, OpenBSD, various distributions of Linux...... what's the 
>>> problem? You can't realistically expect to get everything for no
>> cost. 
>>> Or maybe you need clarification between the terms - Free does not 
>>> necessarily mean "at no cost to you" (although as you know you can
>> still 
>>> download and use FreeBSD at virtually no cost to you....)
>> Thanks, but that was evident to me. I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but
>> I'm not THAT 
>> much of a newbie.
> 
>  I would like to add on, point out, that cdrom.com was likely one of
> the sole reasons FreeBSD is here today. They supported FreeBSD and gave
> it marketing and a face. How? Via your purchases, back before you could
> so easily download it.
> 
>  Now, yes, prices have gone up, or at least feel that way. But even if
> you, as an individual feel that its worth saving 40.00 to max out your
> DSL for a a bit and make a few cds at home, if you use FreeBSD at your
> company, you should get them to subscribe to the CD's!  Maybe as an
> individual it's not cost effective for you. But there is no reason to
> let your company off the hook if you can help it. 
> 
>  
> 
>  Nicole
> 

Good points. Kind of what I asked for in the first place.