[ale] Linux for sale
Geoffrey Myers
geof at abraxis.com
Tue Sep 2 12:54:19 EDT 1997
Patrick W. Jones wrote:
>
> I have to differ with this one. There have been many
> times that I have been in Micro Center and there are
> no copies of Linux to be found. This is even after
> I have seen the shelves stocked full of them. Granted,
> Micro Center could be removing them from their shelves
> after a while.
>
> By the way, do you know how much the Applixware costs?
I paid a 'show special' of $150 at Comdex. I don't believe that's real
special though. That is, the price.
>
> > Even If it IS for sale....no one buys it like they buy M$ "software". I was in Micro Center in
> > Marietta, they sell Redhat 4.2, Slack 3.3, InfoMagic's latest "version" (6.0 is it?), and Debian.
> > They also sell Applixware 4.3 for Redhat. Funny thing is the shelves are always stocked with it
> > because no one buys it because its not widely accepted, (then again, "widely accepted" would be
> > Windoze 95 presently) and the fact that the average computer user would have no clue how to operate
> > Linux. (partially because the average computer user is using an MS-related operating system by
> > default, and that they dont know that there are other options.) So I dont think stores sticking it
> > will have much affect unless more computers start having Linux preinstalled. Then again, this is
> > just my thoughts.
>
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> Patrick Jones
> Newcomb & Boyd
> pwj at newcomb-boyd.com
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Geoffrey Myers geof at abraxis.com http://www.abraxis.com/geof
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