How Not To Sell Linux Products

An anonymous reader writes "Roblimo looks at why so many Linux products fail in the marketplace, and decides it's not because Linux users want everything free, but because most products they're asked to buy are either poorly marketed or don't work well. He has some good advice for anyone trying to sell stuff to Linux users, except it really applies to *all* computer products, not just Linux." (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.)

Comments

I wont pay for software

[110010001000]

I wont pay for it myself. Software should be free and open for everyone to have access to. Keeping poor people from enjoying software is cruel. You aren't getting one red cent from me.

Where does it stop?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are PC manufacturers keeping poor people from enjoying software? How about the power companies? Hell, why not the government (taxes)?

yU0 = f4gg0t!

hmmm... these seem like good ideas

[Standard Colin]

maybe somebody should show this to Microsoft? Hey bill, look, people like products that work!

proof indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

How much did you guys pay roblimo for lines like:

Make sure your product is enough better than free alternatives that it's worth paying for

I suppose that if the 'free alternative' is slashdot comments, then perhaps his grammar is indeed 'enough better'. Yeesh.

Re:It's true

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. Way to prove the parent's point. You have an ego as big as the number of bugs in OSS software.

Re:So you're saying..

[bsd troll]

Oh, I thought you were a programmer.

Re:L00ser syndrome & RTFM

[Anonymous Coward]

if you find linux software intuitive and windows software counter-intuitive you're an idiot

Re:It's true

[jadavis]

On the other hand, there are those that think that things produce and those that think people produce.

Obviously, it takes some combination of the two to produce. Socialists tend to emphasize the former, and capitalists the latter, because in general it strengthens their political stance.

In general in the U.S., people who work more have more. Perhaps this trend is not followed as closely as some people would like, but it does work to some degree. Also, in general in the U.S., people who work do not find themselves very poor, and by "very poor" I mean they aren't poor by the standards of most other places in the world.

But nope, it's not perfect.