[Klug-general] Jolibook On Sale

[Luc Tidy]

Well, firstly lets be clear that what we have here in change of price is 
between two different netbooks. A £20 disparity isn't that much of a 
thing between sales, especially considering the RRP for the Acer Aspire 
One is £279.99.

In regards to saving money for having a *nix install, yeah I agree with 
the statement. Now after sales service and the like, I'll happily pay 
for. I question though what, if anything, they are developing 
specifically for the laptop. Quite frankly it would be nice if they 
develop anything, or a fix, that they make it available in the spirit of 
OSS.

In regards to what you get, there is freeware out there. When they say 
it bundles office and the like, or (though I haven't seen it in a while) 
a year free Norton there are still alternatives for those OpenOffice, 
LibreOffice, AVG, Avast! etc. As for access to OSS software, I'm all for 
supporting this and providing or donating where I can, but I argue where 
the funding goes, and if it does go to a sector of OSS developers which 
ones?

Quite frankly the OS doesn't grab me, though I can understand its appeal.

On 22/11/10 11:27, David Halliday wrote:
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/jolibook-goes-on-sale-in-the-uk-for-279/ 
>
>
> I would like to buy one of these. But I already have more hardware 
> than I use and less and less time to play with it as time goes buy. I 
> can't justify it to myself to buy more hardware. Damn shame.
>
> I'm intrigued that the OSS offering costs £20 more than the MS 
> competitor. But perhaps this thought is a bit closed and out of date. 
> Perhaps our perceptions need to move forward with the times and the 
> contemporary business/lifestyle requirements. Previously people have 
> had the thought "Sell hardware with Linux and you save on OS costs". 
> In the case of suppliers who sell hardware with *no* OS 
> (I remember this being roughly a £70 saving at one point in time) a 
> few years ago there was a saving.
>
> But today you are paying for the polish and support. The main stream 
> and business aren't going to accept mailing lists and forums for 
> support of their OS (Even if most of the main stream don't know what 
> an OS is). So for Linux (or rather the support & polish) does have a 
> cost.
>
> And for £20 more, it's support across the board for all hardware, 
> software etc... (to an extent) on that platform. Which is different 
> from cost of OS (included with hardware), then separate productivity 
> suites etc... That and the shop selling it can't make more money from 
> Office, AV and all the other extra software you sell on an MS/Apple 
> platform. So perhaps the £20 shouldn't just be seen as helping an OSS 
> based project but as you are getting a lot more in that package and 
> the ability to get more OSS software from their repositories (servers 
> and bandwidth which have to be paid for).
>
> Right I have rambles too much on this, what do others think?
>
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