Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:00:03 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: "Id Rather be Dead Than Red NWFS 2.0 Linux Contest" (fwd) |
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Paul,
THIS IS REAL. PC Week just interviewed me about it. You are welcome to sign up when the website goes up -- go for the space shuttle trip....
Jeff
Paul Schulz wrote: > > Forwarded message: > > > > ..... sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me > > .... > > > > .. snip bit about being a smart company .. > > > The rules are simple: > > > > We sell Windows NT/2000 NetMigrate software for 199.99/copy > > Linux 2.0/2.2/2.3/2.4 binaries we sell for 49.99/copy (they > > are also free in Linux but for the contest, you must buy a license to be > > counted, and provide a NetWare server serial number to provde you > > converted it to Linux or Windows NT/2000). > > It's your contest, but I'd suggest that you could rethink your rules. > > If you contest is only to drum up business (why else would you offer > it) then you are going to be disappointed by the linux community > responce. Why should I pay spend $50 to enter a contest? (As a > Sysadmin I can buy an O'Rielly book for that.) Admittably, I don't > know the Netware Market (or Netware). > > What type of Linux license are you talking about? (RedHat? SuSE?) > My immediate reaction is that you're ripping off your Linux customers, > by giving them the impression that Linux is under the same licensing > conditions as MS (and can be sold that way). Are they made aware that > this license that you offering, means nothing in terms additional > rights that they don't already have. [As oppose to Microsoft...] > Shouldn't I be able to claim that I already have a valid Linux > License, and hence should be elegible to enter into your contest, > regardless of where I got it from. [Again, it's you contest, but arn't > you being discrimitory?] > > Why not value-add and offer additional Linux support packages? > Or talk the Linux Professional Institute and offer hold their exams? > .. and allow participants to enter the contest, based on Novel > Licenses quoted. > > Then, you'll be seen as one of the Good Guys[TM] in the community. > > > The analysts say that Linux WILL take 17% of the NetWare installed base > > (about 2 million nodes). It's almost time to go and get them. > > How many do you think you'll get? > > Paul Schulz(pauls@caemrad.com.au) SysAdmin > CAE MRad, Innovation House West, First Avenue, TECHNOLOGY PARK SA 5095 > -..-.----_...._--..._---_.-----.....---___.,-..----.-,---.-.--__._.... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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