--- 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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