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[News] How to Tackle Perception of Price as Quality Indicator

  • Subject: [News] How to Tackle Perception of Price as Quality Indicator
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:47:55 +0000
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Why Open-Source Software Vendors Should Charge More

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| It's amazing that this type of 
| misunderstanding of the world of open-source 
| software still exists, but obviously it still 
| does. The flawed logic seems to be that low 
| cost must mean low quality, and since open-
| source software solutions are often low cost, 
| the conclusion is they can't be any good. One 
| obvious way forward is for open-source 
| software makers to simply up the prices of 
| their subscriptions: Their software and the 
| entire open-source development process would 
| presumably then become mysteriously "better."
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3851846/Why-Open-Source-Software-Vendors-Should-Charge-More.htm


Recent:

What price Freedom?

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| Graphics drivers (for X11 under whatever Free
| Software operating system you care to use) are
| one area where Free Software has plenty of room
| for improvement. My laptop has an nVidia
| GeForce 9600M in it, which means that there are
| two drivers I can use for it: the Free Software
| nv driver, or the proprietary nvidia one.
|
| [...]
|
| Non-idle the machine draws just as much:
| clearly regular end-user activities (writing
| email, writing letters, writing blog entres,
| but no compiling) donât exactly stress the
| machine or draw extra power. Given the numbers,
| I donât understand the perceived difference in
| temperature or comfort of working on the
| machine. But it does help me put a price on
| Freedom: two watts.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=489
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