Subject: Re: Comdex post-mortem
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 04/07/2001 18:26:38
seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
> In message <200104071257.FAA03136@shell17.ba.best.com>, Todd Whitesel writes:
> >> next year will be... interesting. I'm told there's at least one
> >> article that ponders why they didn't pick up NetBSD (given that it
> >> already runs on `everything'), but I haven't actually gotten a
> >> reference to it yet.
>
> Uhm. They didn't pick up NetBSD because BSD/OS has a revenue stream.
So does a certain NetBSD company. If the rumors on BSD/OS's revenue
are true, well, the closed source model hasn't really proved itself
particularly well.
It is all a question of understanding how to run an open source
business, and CD sales is not the big way to make revenue in that
world.
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