ed tharp schrieb am 19 Sep 2003 06:10:19 -0400: > Having a contractor who appreciates the GPL as a community (and so > gives back to the community fairly) is (in my view, anyway) almost as > important as their ability to get the boxes shipped.
You know any? Dealing with such contractors is not easy because most of the time they are also working for other companies. Take one of our resellers in Germany for example: They offer 4 different brands of Linux. Which one would they promote more which one less to their customers? But one of the main things at 9.1 was the *unavailability* of boxes. I stop by at our main IT book store here in Frankfurt, Germany. He has a vast supply of German and English books on Unix, Linux, the complete O'Reilly product line, etc. He claims to be able to get every Linux/Unix related book within short time. After he sold the first 20 Mandrake 9.1 PowerPacks he could not get any more from his wholesaler. He told me that they told him to wait for a couple of weeks. He refrained because "after a couple of weeks it's not new anymore and people who'd bought will have downloaded the stuff. They want it now, not in a couple of weeks." I heard from other stores similar tales. This may have been due to the cash flow problems. wobo
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