Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener booted with NetBSD...
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/13/2000 16:44:23
Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com> writes:
> The sad part is that the company is almost surely losing money for every
> one they sell (and that this means the deal will probably be over soon,
> when they realize their mistake and start requiring a signup for service as
> part of the purchase, or alternately when they go belly up because their
> business model is flawed). I wonder how much they'd have to sell them for
> to make money (without their ISP)...

They're apparently going public on the 16th.  The more money they're
losing, the higher the valuation, right?  For all we know, this was
_planned_!  ;-)


cgd
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