<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div style>If you make something for free, nobody is obliged to use it, nor pay you for it.</div><div style><br></div><div style>These rants do nothing to help your cause. I congratulate you on the effort you have gone to make this, but you have to learn to market it to users. What are the advantages? Why should people use it?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>You need a flashy website, and you need to build a user community. But crazy rants will scare people away.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Personally, I don't like SVR4 packaging so it's not something I would use. But there are a lot of SVR4 fans, so perhaps you should focus on that.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Alasdair</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Martin Bochnig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@martux.org" target="_blank">martin@martux.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>FREETARDS</p>
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<p>This is ALL I got since
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<p>Although I even integrated a
donation link: On May 8th 5EUR and 50$ and 65$ Yesterday 30EUR. And some
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<p>Let them eat cake!!!</p>
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<p>Olga is 1500 kilometers away and I have no money to visit her, not to speak live with her.
Cake! How does that taste??</p>
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<p>Some cake pls., only have dry old bread w/o anything here. I needed to switch off my fridge to save electricity. No joke.</p>
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<p>Folks pay for every SHIT. Even if they go to the Restaurant toilet.
Why not for somebody like me who has donated much of his LIFE ????????</p>
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<p>BECAUSE SORRY BUT I ALSO NEED TO EAT</p>
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<p>I did enough in advance.
Now its their turn.
If they refuse, then OpenSXCE may stay binary only and fill the SPARC niche in a commercially.</p>
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<p>If Illumos likes us, they should be willing to
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<p>How to build stuff or packages?
As long as no sponsor helps us, maybe I never release ANY src.</p></div></div></li></ol>
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