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How Not To Sell Linux Products

Posted by timothy on from the user-interfaces-suck-near-universally dept.

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.)

6 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. Well, I know of one! by vasqzr · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Do not use the Mozilla logo on your products!

  2. Re:Why They Sell Poorly? by CptChipJew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Here comes the lions, only in Kenya. Only in Kenya, we've got lions."

    Actually, I think its "Where can you see lions, only in Kenya"

    Kenya Believe It?

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  3. Re:I wont pay for software by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about the software that runs your mouse, keyboad, bios, harddrive, modem???

  4. Re:Why They Sell Poorly? by dirkdidit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahh indeed it is. LOL, I can't even get the damned Kenya tourism advert right today.

  5. Re:We demand you delete this article by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Actually it would be a doubleminus good, not a doubleplus ungood.

    Where did you learn newspeak? And yes, I AM the thought police.

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  6. The classic example of this, the cobalt raq2 by GuyFawkes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I still miss my old raq2's more than any other techno object I have owned, provided you didn't buy them when new (ouch) then immediately unpack them and open the case to see where your thousand pounds just went (where the fuck is the REST of it??) and suffer heart failure...

    OK there was custom PCB work in there and custom BIOS work, but basically it was red hat + apache + few small utils wrapped up in a cute browser based GIU that JUST PLAIN WORKED, and worked flawlessly.

    I'm sure it should not be beyond the wit of some of the better coders out there to take via eden boards and off the shelf small profile cases and debian and do something similar and more to the point do it better than plesk, which I found an absolute bloody nightmare to install *properly*.

    anybody?

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