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@gmail.com> 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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