On 21-Sep-05, Daniel Bertolo wrote:
> Am Mi 21.09.2005 11:50 schrieb IntegraGen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > one important thing : suse is released more or less
> > every 6 months
> > if i buy a commercial dvd player soft,
> > i don't want to pay for it every 6 month,
> > i prefer to buy a rpm once once and install it on my new
> > system when i reinstall it.
>
> You are right no that one. I think, selling a DVD player seperately
> would satisfy everyone:
>
> - SUSE does not include commercial products (except for free ones: Adobe
> Reader etc).
> - The price for the boxed version does not increase.
> - My license works with the next version of SUSE Linux, too.
>
> What Novell would have to do:
>
> - Compile a binary RPM from the OEM version of either LinDVD or PowerDVD
> for every release.
> - Sell it online
Sell serial numbers online. And
- serial numbers work until next major release (or one more)
- older versions will still be compiled and provided for some time on
newer boxes
This is similar to the VMWare model. But older versions should still be
provided for newer Linux releases for some time (maybe a few years). The
problems are:
- The additional maintenance for the older versions comes at a price
(although it should be less than for VMWare, since a DVD player is
much less dependend on hard- and software-changes).
- As with other software products, the customer cannot choose as
freely when he wants to upgrade and pay the price for upgrading the
DVD Player software as well. If you need to upgrade your system for
some other reason (e.g. you want/need some new software that does
not run on your old system, or you need/want a critical bugfix that
is not available for your version of Linux), at some point you have
to pay the price to upgrade the DVD Player software as well.
So this model does not scale to more than one or maybe two widely used
software packages. You have to think of it as "added cost for a new
computer system".
Regards,
--
Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nürnberg
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