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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6481 comp.os.linux:12495 comp.unix.bsd:6499 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!psinntp!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: distributing linux on floppies Message-ID: <id.GS0U.D7F@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1992Oct8.200527.1567@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1b27slINNj2f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Oct9.001607.7471@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:35:33 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1992Oct9.001607.7471@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > is yet another reason a dealer and distributor wouldn't carry GPL'ed > software: No margin after a user group member buys the first copy. What > is a distributor or dealers incentive for carring a product he's going > to sell one copy of, and that will compete with products the dealer and > distributor will make a reasonable margin on? Again, GPL software is > cut off from normal distribution channels. *THIS* is a valid reason for not carrying the GPL software, though it's pretty short-sighted: after all, the user group can get their single copy from somewhere else and you lose just as many sales, *plus* the one you would have made to the user group. I know quite a few retail stores, by the way, that will sell you a floppy full of freeware for some moderate charge ($5 or so), and I've seen RACKS of this stuff at checkout counters. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp. 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012 "Heeft u vandaag al uw wolf geknuffeld?" +1 713 274 5180 "Tjener, denne ret er stadig levende."