On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:47:33AM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: > Sure. True enough. However, marketing people don't usually care much > if you don't give a relation to their bottom line. Bottom line: More stuff = more stuff. ;-) More students = more programmers = more programs = more reason to buy and more potential need for support. Of course, it's a gambl^H^H^H^H^Hinvestment that will require time to see if it pays off. I suppose you could argue that several different ways (e.g. more students = more programmers and savvy users = LESS reason to buy and need support -- i.e. the "roll-your-own" philosophy), but the above or some variant is the spin I'd put on it if I was trying to encourage people to pay attention to students. And even if your administrative assistant and the building maintanence folks CAN program well in Linux, don't you want them to be fixing the air conditioning and calling people instead? So, you'd still want support from a category of people whose job it is to support you. (I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment, so if I'm not making any sense, just ignore it.) -- Kevin Cole | Key ID: 0xE6F332C7 Gallaudet University | WWW: http://gri.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/ Hall Memorial Bldg S-419 | V/TTY: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746
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