<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:58 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 01:44:00PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:<br>
> Moral of the story.<br>
><br>
> Buy boxes, create labels, buy shrinkwrap. Register TuxPaint trademark<br>
> Package TuxPaint for sale.<br>
><br>
> Make money!!!!<br>
<br>
</div>We open source people are still in the minority, so I think you've<br>
got something there. ;)</blockquote><div><br>You can still box and shrinkwrap open source and sell it... not everyone cares about the source code, and "you get what you pay for" means "free is junk" to a lot of people.<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;">I got some free Google AdWords advertising. I'm running two text ads<br>
for <a href="http://tuxpaint.org" target="_blank">tuxpaint.org</a> right now. One says: "Free Kids Art Software",<br>
the other says "Get Tux Paint for Free".<br>
<br>
I went with the former first, because I figured mentioning "Tux Paint"<br>
didn't make sense if I'm out there trying to inform people about a<br>
product they've never heard of.<br>
<br>
However, the one that says "Get... for free" is getting clicked at least 2x<br>
as often. Maybe I'm more famous than I thought.<br>
<br>
And if I am, then why don't people know that Tux Paint is free _to begin<br>
with?_ I think it's because they assume: "it's computer software,<br>
it must cost something."</blockquote><div><br> That is interesting... I wonder if you use "KidPix" in an ad, like "free alternative to KidPix" how it would do?<br></div></div>