Re: Product Pricing

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:18:38 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> Too much has been trimmed off the top (I can't
> beleive I'm complaining about too much trimming...), 

Not enough of the quotes was trimmed of, unfortunately, for a wrongly
placed reply to maintain context. The reply does not refer to anything
after the first three lines:

"T. Ribbrock" <emgaron@xxxxxxx> said:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:37:43AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:55:19 -0400, William J. Salvino wrote:
> [...]
> > > Will there be a new-release boxed Red Hat operating system
> > > priced at $39.99 or less with or without support or printed
> > > materials?
> > 
> > Different question: What features would you expect to get for that
> > price?
> 
> About 2-3 CDs and reasonable timely updates for security issues, no 
> further support and no dead-tree docs. Or something like Mandrake's
> "Discovery Edition". I remember this came up around RHL6.2 already,
> with pretty much the same reasoning: Some people just need the media
> and the updates, no more. However, by now I think it's obvious, that
> those folks are not (or no longer) the target audience for Red Hat -
> which is a valid choice for them to make.

I have seen a reference on another mailing list that Red Hat has taken
steps to ensure that outfits like Cheapbytes have a simple, legally
unambiguous way to make copies available.  So, there should be a CD or
DVD based release of Fedora, online docs & all, for the usual
$6-$15US.

rickf



Should have been:

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:55:19 -0400, William J. Salvino wrote:
>
> Will there be a new-release boxed Red Hat operating system
> priced at $39.99 or less with or without support or printed
> materials?

I have seen a reference on another mailing list that Red Hat has taken
steps to ensure that outfits like Cheapbytes have a simple, legally
unambiguous way to make copies [Ed: of Fedora] available.  So, there
should be a CD or DVD based release of Fedora, online docs & all, for
the usual $6-$15US.

rickf


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