Amen, brother ! I just hope my product managers are reading this.
Alberto.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Trent [mailto:xxxxx@synaptics.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:10 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: value of open-source in the driver community (was
“how to execute a process…”)
This is an interesting quote, indeed.
Of course there’s a corralary: if they have no money, you lose nothing
by giving them your software for free :-). Also, if people actually
want to spend money on a product (in order to get service or support
or liability or whatever), they’ll buy it from you even if it’s free.
Microsoft has made a bundle (if you’ll pardon the expression 
with
this technique. Sell a basic platform and give away the goodies. You
can do the opposite as well. They may (and in fact, have to) bitterly
complain about people pirating Windows, but they’d be even less happy
with the alternative.
Walter Oney wrote:
benson wrote:
>Customers with no money, on the other hand, have no money.
This has to be one of the all-time best business quotes. I had
previously given that honor to “the customer may not always be right,
but he’s always the customer.”–
Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
Check out our schedule at http://www.oneysoft.com
–
…/ray..
Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
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