From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 10:23:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19597 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19592 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA19824; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:44 -0700 (PDT) To: Stephen Roome 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]... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:15:45 BST." Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:43 -0700 Message-ID: <19805.861384223@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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