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Title: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: sam on January 24, 2010, 05:03

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-you-blew-your-chance-to-go-mainstream-665047

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Mayank Sharma asks why Ubuntu can't market itself properly

Title: Re: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2010, 14:04

I sometimes wonder if more people would go for it if it wasn't free?  Perhaps people think, if it's any good, why give it away?  :dunno:

Title: Re: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: Rik on January 24, 2010, 15:58

That wasn't what influenced your decision though, was it.

Title: Re: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2010, 16:18

True.

Title: Re: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: Sandra on January 25, 2010, 01:00

Quote from: Simon on January 24, 2010, 14:04

  Perhaps people think, if it's any good, why give it away?  :dunno:

We once had a car for sale that we had got at a ridiculously cheap price as it needed a new clutch fitting and advertised it at a price that would have given us a reasonable profit. No one came to look at it. After seeing what similar models were going for we then readvertised it for a lot more which was still about £50 pounds less than most were asking. This was in the late 70s when you could still get a decent secondhand car for £300 or so. It went the following day to the first person who saw it and we could have sold it to at least another 10 people in the next couple of days  :)

Title: Re: Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
Post by: sam on January 25, 2010, 01:13

people are daft.