Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:15:45 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970418181116.11496J-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4626.861257826@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > We sell to distributors and end-users both. What the distributors > > > do with the product afterwards is their call, not ours. > > > > what do they do with them? i have yet to see a store carrying > > FreeBSD... > > I don't know where you live, but they can be found at both Fry's and > "Weird Stuff" - two popular Bay Area computer outlets. Fry's, 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've also seen copies at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley, a popular > hangout for CS types. More linux stuff, naturally, but they at least > had FreeBSD in the retail box in their OS section. I believe you can > also find them at Computer Literacy, though I haven't checked recently. More Linux in Berekely, isn't that scary ? > > This is not to say that there aren't stores we could still get into > that we're not, and I've often wondered what the penalties are for > reverse-shoplifting. I walk in with 10 of the latest FreeBSD CDs > (already price-stickered at the usual retail price of $24.95) and > surrepticiously stick them on the shelves. It's an option which has > crossed my mind more than once. :-) I'm sure if you offer to sell these to people, perhaps give 10 to a shop to price however they like (suggest say 50 ukpounds in the UK I don't know about $) and give them a number to ring to order more. They'd be happy to sell them for you, and say they all go in the first day, I'm sure they'll order more from you. > > > at least go back and read last night's list... and you must admit... > > i am right about the exposure/distribution factor, maybe walnut creek > > needs to get some distributors serious about getting the disks out on > > the shelves... > > They are serious and they are trying, but Rome wasn't built in a day > and they're still rebuilding their distributor sales force (they had > some personnel changes which left them understaffed, but they've been > hiring aggressively and now appear to have it back up to snuff, albeit > not quite so experienced as before [that just takes time]). Rome wasn't built in a day, but that was one localised area, you could send a bunch of CD's as suggested to halfway round the globe for the cost of a pressed CD and a stamp or two, maybe it'd be worth it ? There's a lot of empty markets out there, and I sure as hell know that Linux sells off the shelf all round UK. -- Steve Roome Technical Systems Manager, Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522
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