From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 14:11:20 -0400 From: Dave Sill de5@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov Subject: Why? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 212f0b24-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950906181120.JNSq7gbJxvGwyUr2HSwd5NH9cWfkFaxq8QKBoijjSCA@z> In article <42bea1$sm6@wolfe.wimsey.com> curt@cynic.portal.CA (Curt Sampson) writes: > In article , > Dave Sill wrote: > > > >If $350 is a give-away, why not just sell it for $50-100 (to cover > >distribution costs)? > > How do you know that $50-$100 would cover distribution costs? My benchmark is Linux. There are 4-CD Linux distributions that sell for $25. Surely Plan 9 source, docs & binaries would fit on a couple CD's--forget the printed manuals. > Regardless, I don't see what the big problem with $350 is. There > are a lot of other areas of interest where you would have to justify > sums either similar or an order of magnitude larger, that to many > will seem unjustifiable. I just think Plan 9 would have a bigger impact, and sooner, if it was less expensive. Yes, I *could* find $350...if I wanted it that badly. Think how many more people would buy it, try it, and hack on it if it was $50... -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support