From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 15:52:31 -0400 From: Paul Borman prb@bsdi.com Subject: Why? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 213a664a-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950906195231.Q-VxuoCSCqItrJ4qA6Mj3OSWKYBCUL7lw_1ZffFin8U@z> It costs a few bucks to make a CD. It costs a lot of money to be a corporation, have employees, pay lawyers, etc. It is *totally* unfare to compare Linux (or FreeBSD, or ...) to anything that is done by a corporation. They are totally different entities. I am just happy that AT&T even allowed Plan 9 out the door and made it for such a reasonable cost (I to would have liked it to be cheaper, but I certainly can't complain about a $350 site license). -Paul Borman prb@bsdi.com > 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 >