Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:50, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi
<grajkiran@xxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR200803
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Interesting. This reminds me of some article I read somewhere regarding
the perception that people tend to take things that are free as in beer
(linux, for instance) to mean that they are not worth anything.

The author proposes that instead of telling people that linux is free
(and hence worthless) it would probably be a better idea to quote the
price of paid support of, say, Ubuntu desktop @ $250 per year, and then
tell them that since he happens to be a 'licensed distributor' for it,
he could manage to get them a couple of licenses for free.

If you follow the article Ron linked to above, special discounts are
apparently subject to the same effect. In a study where people took
supposedly mind-enhancing placebo drinks, people who drank the more
expensive version (around $1.80) were twice as effective *even though
the researchers explicitly told them that the discount version (around
$0.80) was exactly the same substance*.

Daniel

Well, I don't about other countries, but in France you can get the new office
2007 for free from $M. I guess, people are not going to like it? [smile]
Thierry


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