OK, OK I have been dually chastized :-) The point that I was trying to make was: I feel that were REBOL to follow the pricing/Marketing example of Turbo Pascal, and price their product so that it is redally available to the masses combined with a top notched marketing plan I believe that they stand the best chance of being pull volted to success. I then made the most gregious error of mentioning BE. I appologize if I offended the BE lovers of the world :-) BUT! I still belive that BE would be much futher along if they were to throw copies of their operating system out of a plane over every university campus in the free world. I believe that it is the college geeks that are responsible for Turbo Pascal becoming as popular as it was, in it's day. I believe that it it is the college geeks that are responsible for LINUX achieving the level of popularity that it enjoys today. And I also believe that BE will never see the level of success that it could simply because the owners are not willing to romance the college set. I think this is very short sighted of them; and will retard if not not dwarf their seccuss. These are the people that are going to be tomarrows decision makers. And it has been shown time and again that the students at the colleges and universities can catapalt a product into the nirvania of success or into the toilet; which ever. REBOL is a product, in my opinion, that would benefit greatly from an intimate relationship with the geekdom. I don't know their finances so I can't suggest how much they would be able to give; but I would encourge the owners to give to the university set until it hurts. I honestly believe that the returns down the road would be greater than any temperary suffering now. So again my apologies to the powers that be of BE. I am deeply contrite and humbled. OK moderately so any way :-) Paul A. Porter >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [REBOL] Re: DONT MAKE IT COMMERCIAL!!!! Re:(9) >Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 2:41:12 -0600 Snip... >And this price for a full (fresh install) version is a full $40 less than >the cheapest UPGRADE version of Windows 95/98 I've seen, and a greater >difference against full versions of Windows. I won't be bothering with it >since I'm playing with Linux (and Win95, and using Amiga). > >Elliott > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
