On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >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.
cool down -- i've already been corrected. the original posting was worded in such a way that made me think it was a red hat corp decision, not a comp usa corp decision. so ... mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. rday
