RE: Pirating Ubuntu?

["John.Boland-2" <user=1633@nabble.blu.org>]

 it would be interesting to see how many units they sell and/or install. 

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Subject: Re: Pirating Ubuntu? 

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. 

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