Re: Resellers/Random thoughts on commercialism
I bet alot of sysadmins at university departments and companines would buy
it. $20 is nothing for these budgets. And they would be getting the most official
version.
God it would be nice to be able to pay someone to work on ease of installation
for a few months. But I agree we should not do it.
Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.org> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 01:59:31PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
> > David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org> writes:
> > > I don't even think it would be a bad idea if we sold something
> > > ourselves. There's nothing wrong with selling free software.
> > > Organizing this, though, might be difficult.
> >
> > I don't like the idea. If the projects sells CDs directly, it creates
> > unfair competition for people who'd like to sell Debian CDs
> > themselves, or base a distribution off of Debian.
> ...
> Debian could sell CDs at a very UN-competitive price, so as not to
> compete with CD vendors, but letting consumers have an avenue to
> pay an obviously inflated price (with the knowledge that all of the
> money goes to the Debian project directly). Charge $20 dollars over
> what any of the CD vendors charge. I'd buy it.
>
>
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