[TriLUG] Profit margins on box sets
rpjday
rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Oct 25 06:14:07 EDT 2001
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Fred Stutzman wrote:
> This discussion has got me thinking - how much money does a company like
> RedHat make off these box sets? I can imagine after they box, bind, and
> distribute everything to these major chains, and they add their markup,
> the profit can't be *that* substatial. I'm torn - I want to support
> Linux, but is the limited amount of monetary compensation they take from
> the purchase of a box set worth it? Everyone has different reasons for
> buying box sets - that would be mine. If anyone has hard facts or
> theories, I'd be interested.
i recall this discussion from at least a year ago. from memory,
red hat gets about half of the shelf price. so, yes, they still get
something significant, but if we *really* wanted to support them,
i guess the ticket would be to buy from them directly, so they get
to keep *all* the profit.
of course, a totally crazy idea would be to just copy red hat releases
from friends and then, out of the goodness of your heart, send them
$20 or something. red hat as shareware. isn't *that* an intriguing
business model?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
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