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Here at Chatham County Schools we have actually joined a pilot project with
RedHat to bring Linux to the classroom. I look forward to this project being
that I already use linux but now the student can. But as for the pricing,
I think that the amounts greater than 40 or 60 dollars are crazy for free
software. I personally download the ISO's and press my own CD's.<br>
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John<br>
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Robert Floyd wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 22:45, Chris Hedemark wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I said it before and I'll say it again... bring back the $30 box set and<br>many many community members will come back and start buying Red Hat<br>Linux again instead of simply downloading the ISO's. I did this with<br>many of the stable releases before the price hike.<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>I paid $40 for the SuSe 8.0 personal edition. I think that's what<br>Mandrake will sell for as well. $60 seems a bit high compared to the<br>competition. It may be this is a deliberate attempt to distinguish<br>itself as the superior product with superior pricing (don't scoff: this<br>used to work quite well in the pharmaceutical industry).<br><br>I suspect a big part of their pricing decision is their target market.<br>In a pure consumer play, the $20 price difference is significant. If<br>their target is the home IS professional, the higher price is not going<br>to make that much of a difference.<br><br>Now, if RH wanted to go after a larger consumer market, they could work<br>with, say, the Durham Public Schools, to load RH on the system's<br>computers (the non-Mac ones). However, I suspect that's a very big IF.<br><br>With education dollars drying up, it might be very interesting if one of<br>the distro vendors came out with an Education distr
ibution that would<br>include an easy installer, a decent collection of programs useful in<br>education and a support contract for a reasonable price. I could easily<br>see such a package being jumped on by local LUGs, who could run<br>installfests and provide local support to their local school systems...<br><br>But it's getting late, and I'm starting to hallucinate <g>,<br>Robert Floyd<br>Durham, NC<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TriLUG mailing list<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug">http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug</a><br>TriLUG Organizational FAQ:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html">http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html</a><br><br><br></pre>
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John Warf
Connectivity Specialist / Network Administrator
Chatham County Schools
PO Box 128, 369 West St.
Pittsboro, NC 27312
919.542.3626 ext.286
919.542.1380 fax
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