Let's start correcting our subject typos now. Bill Fairchild ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Crayford" <dcrayf...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:42:02 AM Subject: Re: "Feebie" software On 4/07/2014 11:37 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:18:12 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >> ... and the notion that IBM software is >> somehow 'free' and that of ISVs is not is among the sillier ones that >> have currency here. > Hmmm - this must be an invitation to me to respond. > Small customers (at least) see software included in the base as "free" - and > ISVs like Dave are paddling a barbed-wire canoe upstream to get a sale. > Simple as that. > Believe me, I've been in to bat trying to get ISV software in the door, and > in a lot of (most) cases it ain't gunna happen. Even if it was free with optional support? > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
