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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 27 Aug 1995 00:37:31 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <41o7nb$hh4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <412dkc$nml@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <419nbv$qdj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <41ap1o$gt3@orion.cc.andrews.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:911 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5364 Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote: >>Ask WC how many CD's they've already sold. >This was my point. It seems to me that the CD sales were somewhat >related to the packages. Just re-reading this. Nope, your assumption that the packages are WC's idea or have been affected by the _CD_ customers is entirely wrong. They've been caused by the demand of our users. And you've left out important parts in your quotation: >>>This attitude totally leaves out all the Internet-impaired users. >> >>Well, how did the "Internet-impaired" users get it in the first place? > >Ask WC how many CD's they've already sold. The previous question has been how to get the software to those without sufficient internet access. It's rather irrelevant what the actual transport medium is: CD, tape, even floppies (for masochists). Anyway, people (including me, even though i know how the masochist way would go) love it if the procedure to get the binary of the famous foozoolix software up&running is _simple_. And rather few have that high-speed Internet access that's required to get every piece of source code right off the net. Particularly, if your horizon doesn't end in New York or San Francisco. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)