At 9:42 PM -0400 on 5/6/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 5/6/99 7:11:10 PM, you wrote:
>
>>Anthony: Why not from selling the product? Open Source does not mean we
>> can't sell it; ask the Debian and RedHat folks sometime.
>>
>>Anthony: Of course, anyone can sell it.
>
>One difference, the Debian and RedHat folks aren't selling *nix, their
>selling the programs that came along with it, and the cost of putting it on a
>CD and in a book, or at least that's what my *nix book tells me.
Anthony: So, why can't we sell a CD with OpenCard and some stacks? Or just with
OpenCard? The software that comes on the Linux CD's is free software.
100%.
Anthony: What they are selling is convenience(sp?). For $40 or so, you can
avoid a 650MB+ download of software from sites across the Internet,
and a search for that software, oftentimes having to compile your
own copy. You don't have to deal with on-line manuals (or print your
own) either. You buy the CD, pop it into the computer, let it boot,
and use the installer.
Anthony: We, too, can sell people conveniance(sp?). We can save the download
time and time finding stacks. We could work with the UFP folks to
deliver a CD-full of usefull utilities. Maybe we could have printed
manuals.
Anthony: For say $20, one could get an OpenCard "suite" that would have
stacks for certain tasks included. Yes, one could go download the
stacks, but then one would have to find them first. And we all
know that finding time+downloading time over a modem can be quite
long.
