I told the guy that as we are both a) not exactly flush with cash and b) quite attached to
actual hardware, they're unlikely to get much cash out of us.
However, from the get go he seems to approach this from a charity / marketing opportunity
(I for one would stick a banner + link on the CHIMPY page as a part of the deal quite
happily). Also, look at it this way: If he can sell it more or less at cost (i.e. USB
dongle + shipping), he doesn't LOSE anything - we were never going to pay 6
kilodollars for an emu when hardware costs 200.
Sampsa
On 5 Apr 2012, at 10:16, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
The vendor might feel somewhat offended by our response because 50 is a *lot* lower
than the published marketing price. However we're hobbyist users who run VMS for
various reasons. A hobby is run on a different (usually non rational) set of decisions
than a business is.
The other thing is that the Alpha business by nature is about to end for commercial users.
So the vendor may find the help of ambassadors useful.
Hans