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Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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>Hi everyone, |
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>Pieter (pvdabeel) has contacted me and is interested in having the store |
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>sell Genesi PPC workstations with Gentoo pre-installed. The hardware |
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>manufacturer is apparently very interested in pursuing this, and allowing |
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>the store to make some profit on the sale of these workstations. My initial |
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>impression of this opportunity is positive, it would certainly be "neat" to |
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>sell these PPC workstations through the store, as they are quite interesting |
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>boxes with tons of geek appeal. |
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>I have yet to talk to the head of Genesi about this, because I want to get |
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>feedback from the trustees first. I see 2 things to consider here: |
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>1) Are there any legitimate reasons why the store should not sell PPC |
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>workstations, *not* as a matter of practicality (that's my domain) but as a |
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>matter of principle? |
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The only hesitation I have is that people are going to go to the source |
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with their problems. I am guilty of this (I bought a computer desk with |
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a big note in it "if there are missing parts, call us, do not take it |
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back to the store".. what did I do when the desk was messed up? took |
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it back to the store) |
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Sadly, this wouldn't be in my mind if we didn't already have a couple of |
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issues with Gentoo developers taking battle with the Pegasos boxes that |
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got donated to us. Daniel, you've been out of the loop on this, but we |
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were given boxes for FREE and have had developers bitching about them |
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(it's inconsiderate and ungrateful, I know, that's a different story). |
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My point is that things like that will only be magnified when people pay |
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for the equipment, and no matter how much you tell them where to go for |
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help, their complaints are going to go where their dollar went. |
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Principally, there is nothing -wrong- with it, but as soon as we sell |
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something from the store we (Gentoo) had better be ready to support it. |
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Issues will be brought up in mailing lists, forums, and IRC. I would |
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have no hesitations if Gensi were to provide a person to proactively |
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field those issues that land in our court. |
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Cheers, |
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-Corey |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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