Selling GNU/Linux in a Box Sep 6, 2008, 20 :01 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2978 reads) (Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
"Each vendor begins by learning from previous efforts to sell GNU/Linux in retail channels. Gerry Carr, a product manager at Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial side, suggests that past efforts "have been set at fairly unrealistic prices," by which he means $100 or more -- prices near to those for a Windows upgrade. "People need to see a significant price saving if they're going to make a leap from the known,""