On Sunday 22 December 2002 12:09, Franki wrote: > They need to think long and hard about what they can offer.. perhaps online > realtime tutorials/training with chatrooms and stuff.. I don't know, but do > some more value adding.. >
Isn't the way to commercialise GPL software to sell services? To give it all away, but sell convenience and extras on top? They could have separate faster servers for club member downloads and updates, they could put a new distro in the shops _before_ they offer it for free download, and they could communicate a bit better with their customers. These aren't original ideas, but they look good to me. Suse have a closed install/config tool and no downloadable ISOs, but I hope Mandrake don't have to go as far as that. Richard
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