On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 06:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 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 > I would not call it "cash flow", I would call it capitalization... but it's all the about the same after the wash.... > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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