[3263] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Bug in 1.2.13 firewall?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Kilburn)
Mon Jun 17 13:29:18 1996
To: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
cc: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jun 1996 01:09:07 -0400."
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:56:12 +0200
From: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>
> > > >
> > >> and there isn't enough difference between decent hardware to get
> > >> people to buy your product without a price war. If we made source available,
> > >
> > >The difference is quality, support, service and people.
>
> (of the hardware vendors I have called, most seemed to have abandoned these
> strategies... although occassionally I hear a good report from someone...)
>
This is an important point. In the free market you must provide
quality,support service
and good people skills. If you do that you can make money and be open. New
companies
which plan from the start to be open can do it. When I say free market I dont
mean the
so-called free market of the U.S where non-free companies thrive by locking
people in
to closed solutions. Free software brings a much more humanist approach to
business and
bears more fruit for the user due to *true* free-market competetion.
