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[Geoff Teale]

Andrew...

Your CDR/CDRW point was exactly the point I was making - Belkin aren't
making any special effort, they are badging things with no software
dependancy as "LINUX compatable" - that said though, this _is_ important to
your average PC World shopper who doesn't know any better, products on
shelved that say "LINUX compatible" reinforce the notion that LINUX is a
valid option.  

One of the most common arguments  I hear is, "Linux may be great, but you
can't get any software for it".  That view point is one conditioned by the
realities of the proprietary software world - people think of sotware as
something that comes in boxes.

Lycoris have cottoned onto this fact - they've released a "Producivity Pak"
for their Desktop LX distribution.  Effectively the "productivity pak" is a
customised version of OpenOffice.org - Lycoris put it on the shelf
seperately and charge you seperately for this.  Early reults from the US
suggest that this works - people will pick up Lycoris Desktop LX and
"Producitivity Pak" in preference to distro's that bundle OpenOffice.org.

I seriously don't think people realise that when they pick up a major Linux
distro (Suse, Red Hat, Mandrake..) they are actually acquiring 1000's of
applications.  People still think of things in the model of the world that
Microsoft has defined.

-- 
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

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make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to
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   - Richard M Stallman


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