[TriLUG] Profit margins on box sets

[Fred Stutzman]

This discussion has got me thinking - how much money does a company like
RedHat make off these box sets?  I can imagine after they box, bind, and
distribute everything to these major chains, and they add their markup,
the profit can't be *that* substatial.  I'm torn - I want to support
Linux, but is the limited amount of monetary compensation they take from
the purchase of a box set worth it?  Everyone has different reasons for
buying box sets - that would be mine.  If anyone has hard facts or
theories, I'd be interested.

Fred



On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, rpjday wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Matt Jezorek wrote:
> 
> > Recently at the Best Buy on 15-501 which i go into at least once a week and
> > for the past 4 or 5 months they have had one version of Linux and only one
> > box of it. All the rest of the shelf space for Linux was overrun by Windows
> > for Dummies Books.....
> >
> > I have not been able to go to Best Buy and buy my new versions of Linux
> 
> ah, grasshopper, you must be patient with these salespeople, as they
> are mere mortals.  i pointed to the couple of boxed sets of rh 7.1 on
> the shelf, and suggested that they *very likely* have the newer
> version 7.2 in the back somewhere.
> 
> sure enough, a minute later, here he comes, placing a fresh box of
> 7.2 in my sweaty little palms.  didn't even give it the chance to get
> comtaminated sitting on the shelf next to the boxes of windows me.
> and even though i'm not thrilled at the increase in price to $59 of
> the basic set, i'll bite my tongue and support the cause.
> 
> rday
> 
> p.s   it's oct 25!  oh, frabjous day, windows xp is officially out.
> yawn.
> 
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