Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 4th Apr 2005 11:50 UTC
I signed up to become a Lindows Insider (now
Linspire) back in February 2004, after giving Lindows 4.5 Developer Edition a try and walking away very impressed about how far Lindows had come. I was very hesitant plugging down $99.00 for something you could do free with most other Distros which I thought was beta testing and voicing your opinion, but figured I had nothing to lose since they offered a 100% Money Back Guarantee on the program.
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"My point was and still is that i would rather see an entry level (for an "insider" program) that's higher than usual regulated by a slightly more difficult install which would most of the times assure to some extend that both motivated and "*skilled*" users are attracted."
If skill was a factor in being allowed to be and insider the market would not be better served.
Linspire Inc. is going after the pre-installation market so they want to get converts from Windows, but more importantly they want to attract people who never owned a computer before.
Commonly those who would sign up to be insiders do possess some knowledge of varying degrees which helps cut down on the noise level in the bug reports filed and requests made.
Unskilled people are needed as well because they will do things "skilled" people never thought of doing, and will help identify areas where things need to be simplified or made more clear.
A person that is willing to plunk down $99 to join the insider program is more likely to want to participate in a more interactive manner, communicate the bugs, work with other insiders to figure out what is going on and occasionally work it out with the engineers, and to try and provide feedback on new previously unreleased stuff or new features added to previously released stuff.
Anyone who is willing to communicate their ideas, their issues, and work with others to figure things out is a good candidate for the insider program and there are others who will welcome them to the family and help them along when there are problems or somethig doesn't make sense to them.
Later, Seeker