Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[tleslie <tleslie@xxxxxxx>]

I'd be very surprised  if Novell charged at all.
The market cap increase of Novell stock (if this Dell thing proves
fruitful, and other spin off), will negate any need to charge Dell (for
OS),
especially if Dell does most support, all setup and all distribution.

They might make some deal to charge some amount up the road, 10$ a copy?
etc. But I would really be surprised  if Dell ever gives Novell even a
dime  for any SLED copies sold on a Dell, hell it would even be in
Novell's best interest in the beginning to give Dell $$$.

Now the extra cost to support SLED via Dell, that could be huge.

Somehow Dell  has to make a strong statement to a potential Dell/Linux
buyer, that there are many peripherals, particularly ones from small
companies, with small sales volume, i.e. some no-name mp3 player,
gum-pack sized camera, also things like cell phones (that have
integration software) that might not work. 

As for the Dell/Windows package getting subsidy payments for trial
software that comes with that setup .... perhaps Fluendo, StarOffice,
Win4Lin, Idruna's Photogenics, C'N'R, etc, could do this in the
Dell/Linux world to bring price down.


-tl



On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:24 -0900, John Andersen wrote:

> 
> The down side of that is SLED with a $50/year price tag will quickly outpace 
> the cost of XP.
> 
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> _____________________________________
> John Andersen

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