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Linux price policies
Hi Doc and all: Today, one friend of mine (Sales Manager) and me was discusing about what's the right price policies for Linux products. We was talking about Music Industries and Digital Music and the relationship with Pharmaceutical products and natural medicines. It's a similar situation in the Linux case. For years propietary enterprise invest billions of dollars in products that further carry big margins (maybe 90%) for bring to customers. Today with Linux and Open Source software the customers could be choose among diferent products with diferent prices, but with a common denominator: The cost for development of the product is in general external to the distributor/manufacturer. The situation is: How the distributor select one price policy? The customer knows that it could take the product (in brute form) for cheap price. How could be obtain profit (the distributor) on this basis? What aspects would be bring value to the "new" offer in the market contamined for the old software model? I would like to interchange ideas in this sense... Regards, -Adriano
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