Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:23:10 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Tim Church <domino720@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Free BSD at CompUSA Message-ID: <3EC0E3AE.1050309@centtech.com> References: <Law10-F66lHr3OudjFN00012633@hotmail.com> <20030513081142.GA18966@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:21:56PM -0400, Tim Church wrote: > >>Dear Webmaster, >> >>In the interest of avoiding any confusion, CompUSA does not sell FreeBSD >>anymore. >>I've had a few disappointed customers who say that your website lists us as >>a retailer who still carries you product. You might want to update your >>site. >> >>Thanks in advance, > > > Thanks a lot for the notice! The rest of this email is for the benefit > of the freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list members. > > The obvious fix would be the attached patch, which removes CompUSA from > the handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml list of boxed product retailers. > However, there is a slight problem with it: the remaining text talks > about "several retailers", yet lists only one - Fry's :) > > Is anybody aware of other boxed product retailers? For that matter, can > anybody check whether Fry's still offer FreeBSD? From a quick look at > their website (and the Outpost redirect), I couldn't find anything by > navigating the menus, although an explicit search for 'FreeBSD' brought > up the FreeBSD Toolkit, which sounds somewhat similar to the FreeBSD > Mall product by the same name, yet leaves me with some doubt as to its > up-to-dateness... I know my local Fry's still sells FreeBSD boxed, however it is an older version. I also believe that Best Buy was selling it last time I went by there (6 months ago or so). > So.. what should we do about the Retailers section of the Mirrors > chapter? Maybe we should get rid of it altogether, until the bsd-advocacy group can get a list of maybe 10 or so going. It's almost a joke to see only 2 on there. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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