Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Message-ID: <19805.861384223@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:15:45 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970418181116.11496J-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
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> I was on Totenham court road in London (England) yesterday and saw some
> Walnut Creek CD rom's for sale, can't remember which ones, but they were
> WCreek. However I saw no FreeBSD cd's there...
>
> The Bay Area is only a very small part of the world. No matter how
> important.
I never meant to imply that we were the center of the universe, simply
that I'd seen the product in stores here. I can't speak for other
areas of the world simply because I don't live in those areas. QED. :-)
I also talked with our sales manager yesterday about getting into more
retail stores and her comment was that we were definitely _trying_ to do
this on a more or less constant basis, but getting in bed with the Mafia
for a portion of their lucrative drug-and-sex trade is actually *easier*
than getting into some of these retail stores. They only buy from
certain distributors and those same distributors require some pretty
insane deals, including direct kick-backs and up-front subsidies
("You give us $50,000 up-front and we'll agree to stock your product").
We're not quite big enough to support that kind of graft. :(
Anyone who'd like to become a regional distributor of Walnut
Creek CDROM products is also welcome to send mail to sales@cdrom.com
and ask for a price list. AFAIK, they're pretty good about giving
new distributors highly competetive pricing in order to get them
started.
Jordan
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