On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 11:36:13PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Like you, I only just picked up on this thread. However, playing devil's > > advocate here, I'd say that RH figures they have enough market > > penetration and recognition to drop the costly retail sector. However, 2 > > things spring to mind, RH built their repuation and branding on having > > those boxed sets available in retail for a LONG TIME. For a long time > > they were the ONLY boxed set available and furthermore, that also helped > > make their name synonymous with Linux in the U.S. - for right or for > > wrong. Second, RH is clearly targetting a a different market than RH - > > namely the enterprise. Look how they piss on desktop users with their > > mangled KDE etc. ML is going after a different market - the desktop, > > whose users reside mainly in the retail space right now. > > > > Just a few thoughts... > > > > Cheers > > > > Jason > > PS, I am American (Dual NZ citizen) but have been happily living in New > > Zealand for over 8 years now... > > > > Vincent Danen wrote: > > > > One side, > > This statement by RH was made before the release of 9.... 9 is in > the stores all that was dropped was the less profitable high end boxed > sets. (those costing $100.00 US +) the lower end boxed sets are still > on the shelves.
Ahhh... ok, thanks for the clarification, James. So they "cheap" boxes are still being produced, just not the more expensive ones. Interesting. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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