Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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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.
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> 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
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