[Klug-general] Jolibook On Sale

[Dan Attwood]

You also have to bear in mind that those 1 year free norton trials etc often
aren't free. Norton will pay to get onto the install. So those free trails
help to drive the price down.

Perhaps the best argument for OSS then is pay extra £20 now and not have pay
anything else later




On 22 November 2010 11:50, Luc Tidy <luc.tidy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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 But perhaps this thought is a bit closed and out of date.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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