Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:12:35 +1000 (EST) From: Joel Sutton <jsutton@genesis.net.au> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: vicfug@itworks.com.au Subject: Re: [ADV] Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade article) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990505165148.8392B-100000@stargate.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990504153510.19009B-100000@crl.crl.com>
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Looking at this argument for a moment... > Financial Problems (Score:1) > by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, @05:36AM EDT > According to employees of Walnut Creek CDROM, the CDROM market is down > and Walnut Creek may not be with us much longer. One major chain of > computer superstores recently discontinued offering Walnut Creek > products. But it is not surprising because Walnut Creek Products are > overpriced. When I purchased 3.0-RELEASE from Walnut Creek I had $84.97 Australian deducted from my VISA card. Today I received 3.1-RELEASE from a company in Sydney after I had written them a cheque for $69 Australian. This included a Linux stuffed penguin (which I will swap for an old desktop PC case) and a SUSE evaluation CD (which should make a good coaster ;->). So I can see the point to this argument. Unless you're out to support Walnut Creek then, in Australia at least, the first thing we'd do is buy from a local, cheaper supplier. Ultimately some money must make it back to Walnut Creek but that doesn't alter the perception that Walnut Creek is over priced. With that in my mind, I must now think about doing the Links section on the VicFUG web site (still not 100% complete) and I'm tempted to put in the local suppliers. What's the right way to go here? Do I take the approach of supporting Walnut Creek if you can afford it, otherwise buy local? Cheers, Joel... --- Joel Sutton | Busy Bee Consulting Phone: 0409 426-563 | Melbourne, Australia Email: jsutton@genesis.net.au | http://www.genesis.net.au/~jsutton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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