A guy at work sent this.

[Jack]

--- Jason Clinton wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 14:26, David Nicol
> wrote:
> > you mean, like Red Hat and Novell do?
> 
> RedHat and Novell don't sell rebranded OSS apps for
> the Windows platform. The 
> end-user software market for Windows is different
> from Linux in that there 
> are plenty of suckers out there willing to shell out
> some $$ for 
> pieces-of-software-at-a-time.
> 
> In the highly speculative scenario I proposed, one
> would be getting insane 
> amounts of markup off each individual package --
> selling them all separately 
> in the same way that proprietary apps for Windows
> are sold. I'm sure there 
> are plenty of people out there who would never know
> they could have gotten it 
> for free.
Oh!!!  You mean like Lindo... err... Linspire!

;')

On that thread, I wouldn't be opposed to paying per 
piece of software (for some things). I'd really like 
to have a good desktop publisher and graphics program 
on Linux that also has a good book on how to make the
most of it. I know there are: OOo, Scribus, Sketch
and Gimp, but they are all lacking a bit in usability.
Well not sure about Sketch (haven't used it much yet).
On the DTP I have this huge (20,000+) library of 
clipart from various places, but it needs some serious
tool for organizing the them so I can find what I
want.

Brian JD




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