On Tuesday 31 October 2000 18:56, Jason Straight wrote:
| On Tuesday 31 October 2000 09:47, you wrote:
| > Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| I realize you have deadlines to meet and people to pay - like I said in my
| other post I used to be a manager of Wal-Mart, so I know when it comes to
| running a business that in reality the $ does come first. If you have no
| $'s you have no people, and if you have no people you have no product to
| get $'s.
|
| But when it comes to the products image being jeopardized I hope you guys
| made the right decision. Hopefully there won't be a big stink about the
| fact that the shelf version that people fork out $25 for isn't as good as
| the version they can dl for free. Next time around you might release the
| full code only to find out too many people won't want it because they will
| think they are getting less for $25 than what they could get for nothing.
Just want to comment on this.
I am on 56K modem. To download 7.2. ISO (500MB, as far as I remember) I need
around 50 hours, taking average download speed of 10MB per hour.
One hour of dialup connection here, in Russia, costs $1. Without any warranty
of quality. Quality connection - $1.5 per hour. So, downloading over 56K
modem will cost me from $50 to $75.
I have some friends working for company with xDSL modem. 7Mbit/sec.
Yes, we have in Moscow such things as well but pretty expensive.
I asked them if it is posible to download LM7.2 for me.
Answer: yes. It will cost 10cent per MB - price they pay to provider when
over limit (limit is 800MB per month)
10cent per MB - same $50 for 500MB
Unfortunately, there is no Walmart in Russia, and I can't buy LM7.2RC just
for $25.
Anyway, there is no price issue for US. $25 (and $45 for Deluxe with Expert
setup) is pretty cheap for US.
For Eastern Europe $25 will be pretty expensive.
And, it is 50% of RedHat price...
|
| I've said all I am going to say negatively about this, I am not going to
| waste more time complaining, I've said my piece about it and it's done,
| what you guys decide to do from this point on is your choice, I can only
| offer my opinions and hope that they shed light on some ideas, so you know
| how your customers feel. Imagine if you never heard from your customers
| like me, and your sales just started dropping to the floor for no apparent
| reason you wouldn't what was wrong and what to fix.
Completely agree.
The first thing in business is listen to your customers.
Big companies never listen to their customers, so problems come.
Hope Mandrake is small enough and will come out with solution.
Just wondering how many people work for Mandrake? (if it is not confidential)
--
Vadim Plessky
http://kde2.newmail.ru (English)
http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian)
