From: adam@netcom.com (Adam J. Richter) Subject: Re: Cygnus does not support Linux Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 10:25:35 GMT
In article <jeffreyC9v7Es.Lou@netcom.com> jeffrey@netcom.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
>Brandon S. Allbery writes:
>> If someone wants to put some effort into talking to them, Cygnus
>> Support might be willing to provide support. Free software doesn't
>> necessarily mean no point of contact.
>
>I have devoted some effort to contacting Cygnus on precisely this
>topic, and it produced a personal E-mail from Mike Tiemann stating they
>had no plans to support Linux, and referring me to Adam Richter. I
>take this as authoritative.
I am working on setting up a number of support services from my
company, Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. (see below), but I am also interested
in helping third party support vendors market their services. Those of
you who have the Yggdrasil LGX ("Linux/GNU/X") beta CDROM will recall
that there is a section of the manual that lists third party service
vendors. You can have your business listed in the manual for free by
sending me email. In addition, anybody can buy a black and white full
page advertisement in the LGX manual for ten cents per estimated
reader, which is defined as the size of the initial production run,
which works out to be $500 for the first production release. A dime
per reader is approximately the going rate for advertisements in
magazines with heavily qualified readerships such as, say, _Unix
Review_. Of course, I'm always interested in talking to people about
other possible opportunities for cooperation. Even when Yggdrasil has
support services of its own, this cooperativeness will continue. I
see a more open market in third party services as an essential selling
point to businesses for the Yggdrasil LGX ("Linux/GNU/X")
distribution.
I want to announce the support services in conjunction with
the production release, but I'm currently looking for office space and
for people in the San Francisco Bay Area who can do support during
normal business hours. Once I have those issues resolved, setting up
the support services should be relatively easy. For example, I
already have a 900 number that I could turn on tomorrow if I had
people to staff it.
-- Adam J. Richter Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated 409 Evelyn Ave., Apt. 312, Albany CA 94706 PO Box 8418, Berkeley CA 94707-8418 (510) 528-3209 (510) 526-7531, fax: (510) 528-8508 adam@netcom.com yggdrasil@netcom.com Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (lpf@uunet.uu.net).