Posted by: PerlCoder
on September 05, 2008 10:52 PM
Maybe instead of trying to sell the box with support, maybe we should just sell the support itself (say, an ad at the distros website, next to the ISO download, that says "click here to buy 30 days of phone support")?
And then, maybe the computer distributors could offer that as an optional, add-on purchase when someone buys a Linux box (say, one of Dell's Ubuntu laptops).
I'm certainly not a business person. But I imagine that at least a few newbies would rather pay to talk to a real linux guru, than post their questions at some overcrowded forum, wondering if anyone is actually going to help them. And if money was flowing in from that, maybe some of it could be spent on that desperately needed advertising.
Maybe there are distributions doing this already? (I'm not much of a distro-hopper...)
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Posted by: PerlCoder on September 05, 2008 10:52 PMAnd then, maybe the computer distributors could offer that as an optional, add-on purchase when someone buys a Linux box (say, one of Dell's Ubuntu laptops).
I'm certainly not a business person. But I imagine that at least a few newbies would rather pay to talk to a real linux guru, than post their questions at some overcrowded forum, wondering if anyone is actually going to help them. And if money was flowing in from that, maybe some of it could be spent on that desperately needed advertising.
Maybe there are distributions doing this already? (I'm not much of a distro-hopper...)
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