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Boland, John wrote: > the worst part is that bestbuy is selling the disc for $20 and for an > additional $130 their geek squad folks will install it! This makes perfect sense to me. Think about it: if a complete stranger wants you to install Linux on their machine and is willing to pay you for your time, you should either install it for free (because you're a nice guy or because you want to promote Linux or whatever), or you should charge whatever your professional time is worth. And of course if you're running Best Buy and you're contracting out people to do the job, you have your own overhead and profit margin to put on top of that. And on the demand side, if a technically unskilled customer with more money than time wants to install Linux, they're not going to be comparing that $150 with the cost of the raw bits; they're going to be comparing it with the cost of alternatives. A Windows Vista upgrade CD costs between $85 and $200, depending on what flavor of Windows you're getting, and that's *not* counting the cost of installing it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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