> Whereas you could well be right. You wouldn't know it here. Compusa > now has a Linux "aisle" dominated by RH and SuSE box sets Fry's has put > RH both in the aisle and on an endcap (which by the way was the way they > sold MDK up through 7.2) The key seems to be the 3 disk sets as far as > a sales leader goes. Why? Getting people to do an impulse buy of a 30 > dollar (roughly) set is a lot easier than the 100 dollar version. But > still the problem in the US is that when you mention open source people > thing Red Hat (and as a FreeBSD user this is a real sore spot, FreeBSD > isn't Linux. *grin*) Doing things like LinuxWorld or Comdex in the US > isn't that important for a distro. But visibility in the market place > is.
I'm in CompUSA quite often, and after reading this thread, I was thinking of ways that would make it easier for someone to buy Mandrake. How about instead of putting CD media in boxes, a voucher is sold to the person instead? When the buyer calls in the voucher information (or does it by the web, or rings it up at the counter) then the current distribution will be shipped to a provided address. This would allow a presence on the store shelves without the hassle of printing the packages and CDs. Is there a paid, priority download option available yet?
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