[wellylug] RE: Linux Clinic for Schools

[Lindsay Hunter]

No, I think they would agree with you.  The point one of them made was that
it needed to be marketed as higher value for money through lower install
costs, lower capital costs and lower maintenance costs, rather than free.

This is not something we need to agree on!  :-)

Lindsay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klenner, Colin [mailto:colin.klenner at eds.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 16 May, 2002 09:47
> To: 'wellylug at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] RE: Linux Clinic for Schools
>
>
> Some points about 'Free' that we should remember.
>
> The basis for using Linux is that it is
> 1. technically superior to other offerings
> 2. harder for ordinary users to damage
> 3. has a large number of good products available for use
> Obviously it has value to the user on this basis.
>
> The 'free' portion of Linux is, and has always been, that the
> code is freely
> available, not the implication that it can be acquired at no cost. It does
> not attract licence fees for the base system services. This is the basic
> difference to other proprietary OS's and products, which can and do charge
> for the purchase of a licence (to use the software). Any
> accountant can show
> the value of one to the other on a dollar basis.
>
> If a support contract or supporting documentation (ie published books) are
> required then this is not within the classification and may
> attract a cost.
> This is where no one product stands out as all contracts of this
> nature are
> similar. However a well configured stable system will require less support
> and therefore attract a lower cost margin from the support agency.
>
> Value in 'free' - obviously!
>
> Finally the other supporting arguement (less a selling point to the
> non-technical), is that the ability to get resolution to faults is better
> under the cooperative model offered freely via newsgroups, than from
> proprietary models. The net gain for the technical community as a whole is
> much greater, and therefore offsets the minor cost of connection and time
> donated. Not 'free' just more efficient.
>
> Feel free to pass this to the dissenting Aucklanders for their
> edification.
>
> Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lindsay Hunter [mailto:klhunter at paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2002 9:25
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] RE: Linux Clinic for Schools
>
>
> Yes.  I fully support us being albel to demonstrate to ourselves
> we could do
> it before offering to help a business such as a school.  And we should
> conisider this as good business, because as has been suggested in the
> Auckland LUG that a 'free' seems to have no value!  Does anyone see a
> conflict in that?
>
>
> Lindsay
>
> <snip>
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