[CoLoCo] Ubuntu at Best Buy

[Andrew]

I find books are very helpful. I have about 3 or four ubuntu books which
i've gotten from Barnes & Noble, and found them to be very helpful. If they
include a good book, then perhaps they could charge a higher price.


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 12:19 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > I don't think they can do this. One of the core values of Ubuntu is
> > that it will always be free. They can charge a price for pressing
> > disc, packaging and such which makes the $20 price about right or
> > maybe a bit high, but $100 would probably cause problems as someone
> > would be profiting on something that is guaranteed to be free. I would
> > think (hope) Canonical would challenge that.
>
> I think that would also depend on whether they offered any type of
> support with the boxed version.  Support is another chargeable element.
>
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