On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I think that REBOL/Command should be priced between US$29 - US$49. This is
> a product that should pay for itself through volume, not through small user
> base + high price per user.
>
> People should be able to get REBOL/Core for free, test it, like it, and
> then *painlessly* upgrade to the entry-level commercial version. A
> no-brainer. I like REBOL, I want to do something Core doesn't do, oh, well,
> no problem, I'll upgrade to REBOL/Command.
>
> An educational/non-commercial version should be made available for free, to
> generate a large user base. What students learn in college they will want
> to continue to use when they take over the corporations. If corporate
> America goes for REBOL (condition large, pre-existing recruitable user
> base), then REBOL/Command and other REBOL products will generate a nice
> income. I believe that for a long time Apple stayed in business because
> they had a strong userbase in educational institutions. That userbase was a
> result of many freebies.
>
> Another source of income would be bundling with commercial OSs, such as
> Solaris, BeOS, MacOS. Here a Novell port could be interesting, if Novell
> wants to play along (i.e. guarantee a minimum number of sales, based on
> their current user base and bundle REBOL with Novell as their standard
> configuration and scripting language).
>
> There are other forms of packaging REBOL. Some have been announced such
> embeddable REBOL (i.e. libraries or DLLs), Apache modules and REBOL/Media.
>
> Overall, I think that many low prices will be more helpful in spreading
> REBOL than a few high prices.
>
> My $0.02
>
> Elan
>
great Elan .. i couldnot have said it in a more better way .....
i still think everything in REBOL should be free ...
i do agree that python/tcltk all had some good backing ... but they
wouldnot have survived if they were shit ... open source communnity does
tolerate bullshit .. and when u know that the whole world is going
to see through your thing ... u put in your best efforts...
and BTW .. some one just said that some secret company is funding linus
... and he is well paid ... thats very true ... linus is rich now ...
but he wasnt some two-three years ago .... after linux came in, it took
about 3-4 years for linus to get "paid" for the work .... but he did get
paid .. and now he and his band of followers all over the world is
giving cold sweats to the richest guy in the world .... it did happen ...
i know this is irrelevant here ... but what i want to say is if anyone
wants REBOL to kick ass set it FREE ... all of it... i am sure it will
bring great results .... it worked for perl .. for python ... for
linux... it MUST and WILL work for REBOL ....
and i am not nervous ... i just wanted to end this debate ..... it leads
nowhere ....
