Free BSD at CompUSA

[Peter Pentchev]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:21:56PM -0400, Tim Church wrote:
> Dear Webmaster,
> 
> In the interest of avoiding any confusion, CompUSA does not sell FreeBSD 
> anymore.
> I've had a few disappointed customers who say that your website lists us as 
> a retailer who still carries you product.  You might want to update your 
> site.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Thanks a lot for the notice!  The rest of this email is for the benefit
of the freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org mailing list members.

The obvious fix would be the attached patch, which removes CompUSA from
the handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml list of boxed product retailers.
However, there is a slight problem with it: the remaining text talks
about "several retailers", yet lists only one - Fry's :)

Is anybody aware of other boxed product retailers?  For that matter, can
anybody check whether Fry's still offer FreeBSD?  From a quick look at
their website (and the Outpost redirect), I couldn't find anything by
navigating the menus, although an explicit search for 'FreeBSD' brought
up the FreeBSD Toolkit, which sounds somewhat similar to the FreeBSD
Mall product by the same name, yet leaves me with some doubt as to its
up-to-dateness...

So.. what should we do about the Retailers section of the Mirrors
chapter?

G'luck,
Peter

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Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.292
diff -u -r1.292 chapter.sgml
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml	1 May 2003 21:50:46 -0000	1.292
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml	13 May 2003 07:19:05 -0000
@@ -20,13 +20,6 @@
       <itemizedlist>
 	<listitem>
 	  <address>
-	    <otheraddr>CompUSA</otheraddr>
-	    WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://www.compusa.com/"></ulink></otheraddr>
-	  </address>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <address>
 	    <otheraddr>Frys Electronics</otheraddr>
 	    WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://www.frys.com/"></ulink></otheraddr>
 	  </address>
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