[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.3 - pricing suggestions for the lurkers @ RHAT

[John Warf]

Here at Chatham County Schools we have actually joined a pilot project 
with RedHat to bring Linux to the classroom.  I look forward to this 
project being that I already use linux but now the student can.  But as 
for the pricing, I think that the amounts greater than 40 or 60 dollars 
are crazy for free software.  I personally download the ISO's and press 
my own CD's.

John

Robert Floyd wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 22:45, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>
>>I said it before and I'll say it again... bring back the $30 box set and
>>many many community members will come back and start buying Red Hat
>>Linux again instead of simply downloading the ISO's.  I did this with
>>many of the stable releases before the price hike.
>>
>
>I paid $40 for the SuSe 8.0 personal edition. I think that's what
>Mandrake will sell for as well. $60 seems a bit high compared to the
>competition. It may be this is a deliberate attempt to distinguish
>itself as the superior product with superior pricing (don't scoff: this
>used to work quite well in the pharmaceutical industry).
>
>I suspect a big part of their pricing decision is their target market.
>In a pure consumer play, the $20 price difference is significant. If
>their target is the home IS professional, the higher price is not going
>to make that much of a difference.
>
>Now, if RH wanted to go after a larger consumer market, they could work
>with, say, the Durham Public Schools, to load RH on the system's
>computers (the non-Mac ones). However, I suspect that's a very big IF.
>
>With education dollars drying up, it might be very interesting if one of
>the distro vendors came out with an Education distribution that would
>include an easy installer, a decent collection of programs useful in
>education and a support contract for a reasonable price. I could easily
>see such a package being jumped on by local LUGs, who could run
>installfests and provide local support to their local school systems...
>
>But it's getting late, and I'm starting to hallucinate <g>,
>Robert Floyd
>Durham, NC
>
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John Warf
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Chatham County Schools
PO Box 128, 369 West St.
Pittsboro, NC  27312
919.542.3626 ext.286
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