<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Bill Kendrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:08:23PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:<br>
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> You can still box and shrinkwrap open source and sell it... not everyone<br>
> cares about the source code, and "you get what you pay for" means "free is<br>
> junk" to a lot of people.<br>
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</div>Actually have sold Tux Paint, on CDROM, via CafePress. I made $2/sale.<br>
The problem is, chucking together an ISO and mailing a disc off to them<br>
takes a lot of time. By the time I get around to doing that, a new<br>
version of Tux Paint is out. The CDROM they have now is seriously<br>
out of date... people still discover it via CafePress directly, I guess.<br>
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Sad. :(</blockquote><div><br>"You get what you pay for" also means "$2 is junk." Try $19.95 and put it up on Amazon, and I bet you'll sell a lot more. Call it TuxPaint Pro maybe.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="im">> That is interesting... I wonder if you use "KidPix" in an ad, like "free<br>
> alternative to KidPix" how it would do?<br>
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</div>It wouldn't fly, because of Google's rules. I actually had one of the<br>
ads disabled until I removed "Mac OS X" in the description. In other<br>
words, I could not say: "Works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X".</blockquote><div><br>That's odd, but I guess it makes sense.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(Presumably "Windows" didn't get flagged, because it's also a generic term.)<br>
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So it now says something inaccurate and kind of stupid:<br>
"Works on all computer types". I'm not sure Mac OS X or Linux users will<br>
look at that and say "HEY! That includes me!" Plus it's also inaccurate...<br>
Tux Paint doesn'r un on older Mac OS 9 systems. Etc. etc.</blockquote><div><br>I think you can say "Mac" though, since I certainly see that a lot on packaging and instructions. Just mention in the fine print on your site that it requires Mac OS X 10.N for whatever value of N. <br>
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