Comments on: How come… http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-come/ Describing our migration to open source software and UK business issues in label printing. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-come/#comment-11866 Adrian Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:49:29 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/?p=129#comment-11866 that will be the reason - good job I'm reformatting with linux than! that will be the reason - good job I’m reformatting with linux than!

]]> By: The Open Sourcerer http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-come/#comment-11865 The Open Sourcerer Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/?p=129#comment-11865 The kick-back one is spot on. Most of the vendors of the trial AV software and other crapware do indeed pay handsomely for the privilege of clogging up your HDD. On the new netbook size laptops with the now quite cheap XP code, the crapware cheques can mitigate the entire M$ OEM license fee. In fact, if you are a BIG volume manufacturer, you will actually make money by doing it... The kick-back one is spot on.

Most of the vendors of the trial AV software and other crapware do indeed pay handsomely for the privilege of clogging up your HDD.

On the new netbook size laptops with the now quite cheap XP code, the crapware cheques can mitigate the entire M$ OEM license fee. In fact, if you are a BIG volume manufacturer, you will actually make money by doing it…

]]> By: Paul Cooper http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-come/#comment-11864 Paul Cooper Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:07:16 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/?p=129#comment-11864 Possibly because they get a kick back for all the crapware that gets loaded on a Windows machine? It does say 'No unwanted trialware - fitted only with the software you want' on the site so maybe that's a thing of the past. Maybe the support costs or return rates are still higher for Linux so they just can't justify cutting that close to margin? Maybe they don't have enough customer intelligence on Linux buyers to predict how much they can be upsold (aka bait and switch) to consider these kind of loss leader machines? None of these seem like the obvious answer - maybe it's some combination of them. Possibly because they get a kick back for all the crapware that gets loaded on a Windows machine? It does say ‘No unwanted trialware - fitted only with the software you want’ on the site so maybe that’s a thing of the past.

Maybe the support costs or return rates are still higher for Linux so they just can’t justify cutting that close to margin?

Maybe they don’t have enough customer intelligence on Linux buyers to predict how much they can be upsold (aka bait and switch) to consider these kind of loss leader machines?

None of these seem like the obvious answer - maybe it’s some combination of them.

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