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From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What to install with FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 15:03:43 -0700
Organization: University of California, Davis
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J Wunsch wrote:
>
> james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote:
>
> > >I've considered getting the Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which I'm sure would
> > >really simplify things for me, but I don't feel like shelling out $40 for
> > >it only to find that I really would rather continue running Linux.
> >
> > I understand there are other places where you can get it more cheaply -
> > WC sells it at a premium deliberately and uses the extra to support
> > the FreeBSD project (hope I got that right! 8-)
>
> Well, Walnut Creek is indeed supporting the FreeBSD project, but their
> reason for the higher price is rather that they wouldn't like to
> compete with their own CD-ROM resellers, and thus keep the price for
> direct shipping rather high. (The 25-CD price is much lower.)
So who are their re-sellers?
--
- Mike
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