On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 11:21 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > > > (that perhaps says a lot about the state of open source in Singapore). > > > > I'm not sure what it says about the state of OSS in Thailand, but > > yesterday I was surprised to see at least Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and > > OpenOffice prominently displayed (top row, right in front) at more > > than one shop amongst the cornucopia of software available at Pantip > > Plaza in Bangkok. I wasn't even looking for them, just strolling by. > > And you would find Fedora, Ubuntu and others on sale at similar shops > in the neighbourhood shops selling unofficial CDs. These are just another > title form the point of view of the seller who has, in most cases, no interest > in what it is except to make a buck. > > Harish >
Why put a negative spin on it! Is this FUD! I prefer to make the assumption that the retailer is a brilliant person who understands that in the art of retailing you put the product that you want to push. Or the product that is popular and making money. Up front. Top or middle. What you don't care about goes on the bottom or in back. Easy to reach! Is what you want. I'm actually offended at your comment. Coming from the tradition of retailing. My guess is that the proprietor from experience is probably a person that just, knows, what works! Carlton _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
