freebsdmall.com prices

[Nicole]

--- 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