On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:30:32 -0400 (EDT) >From: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Fast mirror? > >On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I tried 3 CompUSA's yesterday out of curiosity - one in person and 2 on >> the phone (I already ordered from Amazon). Here is a composite of what >> I heard from all 3 of them: >> >> ME: Do you have the new 8.0 release of RedHat Linux? >> EMPLOYEE: No, we're still carrying 7.3. As a matter of >> fact, we also have 7.2, 7.1, 7.0 and >> 6.something-or-other. But we will be getting >> 8.0 and it's cheaper than 7.3. >> ME: When will you be getting 8.0 then? >> EMPLOYEE: They won't send us any until we get can sell of >> some of these 7.3 boxes. > >this is an ugly trend, but there's a simple way to deal with it. don't >buy the boxed set anymore -- and send a message to red hat that this is >unacceptable behavior.
Um, this is not "Red Hat behaviour". If CompUSA decides that they wont stock 8.0 until 7.3 stock is sold, that is their own business. Red Hat most certainly did not tell them they can't have 8.0. Think about how stupid that sounds? If the scenario above occurs, then tell CompUSA that you wont shop there if they don't provide the software that you want to have, and that you want 8.0, and you consider _their_ behaviour to be unacceptable. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Red Hat. >i'm hoping the compusa experience described above is an >aberration, but if this is typical, i'm not going to be shelling >out any more money for boxed sets. until now, i've *always* >purchased an official set to support red hat, but if this is the >sort of strong-arming we can expect, no more. I really don't understand how you can think in any way that this is a Red Hat induced problem. Red Hat wants to sell our products, and that means everywhere we possibly can. It would be absurd to prevent people from selling 8.0 until they sell older versions. Just think about how much economical sense that makes? The above artificial store conversation almost certainly was a discussion between a CompUSA store and their upstream, not Red Hat. If you wish to no longer purchase the boxed set, at least do it for a valid reason, not because some store purposefully chooses not to stock it. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
