You make a very interesting point and I think I can follow up with an example.
I live near a huge electronic store called Fry's Electronic. I have purchased everything from my laptop, the parts for my own gigahertz tower, two monitors, iMac, Linux-Mandrake 7.0-7.1 and 8.0, WindowsME and XP, digital camera, cabling up the whazoo....well needless to say I get all of my toys there. Up to the release of Linux-Mandrake 8.0 they had stockpiled most of the well known Linux distros. Last trip I was told when I asked about where and when the 8.1 would be available and realized that Red Hat had dominated the shelves. Corel was gone so was Linux-Mandrake and Suse had been cut to a 1/3. BSD had now joined the fray. The store clerk told me there was no point in keeping Mandrake since there was a vast majority flocking to Red Hat and BSD had been demanded for a while. There are other stores where they are still keeping Mandrake, but they have mentioned the same thing. For the immediate area there is not much demand for it.
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