On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew R Picek wrote: > When the employee said "they won't send us any," I would think that > means that the CompUSA distributor will not send them any. Not RedHat. > RedHat most likely does not ship directly to the stores themselves, and > so probably the people in charge at CompUSA are up to this scheme and > not RedHat. That's just my take on it.
if that's the case, then of course my previous rant (haven't had enough coffee this morning yet) is meaningless. but if it's compusa's distributor that's responsible, that's definitely odd. i would suspect that most people, when they buy *any* kind of software, take the time to verify that they're getting the latest version. how does compusa (or its distributor) think it will move what sounded like dozens of copies of older releases of red hat? all it means is that compusa will lose out on potential sales of RH 8.0 while other stores make those sales. no matter how you look at it, *someone* is making a horrendous business decision. rday
