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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.)
I thought Linux was free?
If its not free, I might as well be warezing something better.
people who use linux beleve that everything should be free. That and most of them are just dumb teens who don't have a clue in the world.
Face it, it's the truth.
free Linux apps are better than commercial Linux apps showing that the Linux architecture is flawed by it's very nature.
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It's hard to say: Are the free programmers gifted coders, or are the commercial coders just REALLY bad
Here is an interesting link that I found relating to this:Here it has a different aspect of the story, an interesting read
Its the old bait and switch.. its only free till your hooked, then you have to pay licencing fees. I'll stick with Windows thanks, I least I know what I have to pay upfront.
What about them? I won't pay for that software either. Mod me down, but I WILL NOT PAY FOR SOFTWARE, and you shouldn't either. Software should be available for free for all people.
Yes, actually PC manufacturers are keeping poor people from enjoying software. This is why there are many "Free PC" programs for disadvantaged people. Why should the well off only have access to digital information and software?
LIVE GNU OR DIE.
"linux is teh cool!" "excuse me, something is wrong" "but but, um, no, you suck" look who's getting all defensive when a problem is discovered with your precious linux
netcraft confirms it. i shat myself.
i just noticed this was marked redundant. i didn't see anyone else mention that they may have shat themself, so I assume this moderation means that it was just obvious that every shat themselves. i simply didn't realize that everyone found the original post as clever and hilarious as i did.