You speak of captialism. Well in modern day times that means hitting a price point the consumer will eat up. This does not mean setting a price point that falls outside the range of consumer acpetance.
Now look at the surrounding environment of linux being installed on deliverable commoditized workstations.
What you find is a level of user expectation that is going to see a 99$ addition to the base unit and not grasp why they shouldnt just get an extra 64 meg of ram instead.
Linux folks who know enough about linux to get over the 99$ tag will not be having linux preinstalled on a DELL in the first place, so your talking about an entirely differnt market.
They should make it not only attrative but set the price so it seems its a give away. Why? Becuase then dell gets to be Firstest with the Mostest linux sales...which if you can see down the road will mean they will get mad bizness from folks who will be looking to jump on the bandwagon.
Pricing too high early on will mean they wont get the flood gate reaction buy. If they ran a LINUX FOR JUST 30$--JOIN THE REAL COMPUTER REVOLUTION AT A GREAT PRICE--deal then you would see folks going krazynuts koko.
Why waste a great marketing ploy with a bad price point?
99 bucks does seem a bit too much at this point. Shit, they should be dropping it down for the cost of the RH cds, if thats the distro they are going on.
This whole "LInux INstalled on a PC at deliver" will only fly IF its a good thing for consumers, and they are all about the bottom line.
Linux heads and the like will do the install themselves, I mean what died-in-the-wool *nixer would use a preinstall of the os with out spending more time tweeking with it, oin which csae you might as well have installed it yourself.
So to sum up MAke IT Attractive to the Consumer or this is going to go the way of 3d game controlers
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You speak of captialism. Well in modern day times that means hitting a price point the consumer will eat up. This does not mean setting a price point that falls outside the range of consumer acpetance.
Now look at the surrounding environment of linux being installed on deliverable commoditized workstations.
What you find is a level of user expectation that is going to see a 99$ addition to the base unit and not grasp why they shouldnt just get an extra 64 meg of ram instead.
Linux folks who know enough about linux to get over the 99$ tag will not be having linux preinstalled on a DELL in the first place, so your talking about an entirely differnt market.
They should make it not only attrative but set the price so it seems its a give away. Why? Becuase then dell gets to be Firstest with the Mostest linux sales...which if you can see down the road will mean they will get mad bizness from folks who will be looking to jump on the bandwagon.
Pricing too high early on will mean they wont get the flood gate reaction buy. If they ran a LINUX FOR JUST 30$--JOIN THE REAL COMPUTER REVOLUTION AT A GREAT PRICE--deal then you would see folks going krazynuts koko.
Why waste a great marketing ploy with a bad price point?
99 bucks does seem a bit too much at this point. Shit, they should be dropping it down for the cost of the RH cds, if thats the distro they are going on.
This whole "LInux INstalled on a PC at deliver"
will only fly IF its a good thing for consumers, and they are all about the bottom line.
Linux heads and the like will do the install themselves, I mean what died-in-the-wool *nixer would use a preinstall of the os with out spending more time tweeking with it, oin which csae you might as well have installed it yourself.
So to sum up MAke IT Attractive to the Consumer or this is going to go the way of 3d game controlers
Come on folks...Dont tell me im the only one who has a rj45 in the crapper.
Have laptop will logon.
I have also used my palm pilot to dial into a shell from the can. Its easy, every one should have one in the bathrooms right next to the toilet paper.
John C ports quake over, a feat in itself, and gets whine infested weasle catteringsd as thanks?
John C has got more mercy than I do, Id let the 5% rot in emus and Marathon.
Quake, becuase it proves Action speaks Louder than Whine