[Tfug] Time to boycott Office Depot?

[Jim Secan]

At 10:29 AM 03/27/03 -0700, Derbe wrote:
>I asked the Manager of the Marana Office Depot about this, his response 
>is below...
>
>I got the fax you sent me including the alleged memo from Office Depot. I 
>think it must me near April 1. This is not for real. There is no Michael 
>Dietrich and the the supposed division he is VP of doesn't exsist. My store 
>manager checked  all Office Depot corporated records for the last two years 
>and he doesn't come up in any search! Also, my observation is that this 
>letter isn't in any form normally associated with Office Depot's corporate 
>memos. Hope this helps.

Yes, but he does not answer the question of whether OD is indeed getting
out of the Linux sales business.  The fact that Mr. Dietrich doesn't exist
is interesting (the Internet is NOT the font of truth some would like it to
be), but I have been told by salespeople at OD (the Oracle store) that they
were no longer carrying Linux software and would not be in the future
either.  It would be interesting to find out if this was a store manager
decision, or a higher-level decision.  Could you ask the Marana manager
whether or not he's carrying Linux software and if not, could he carry it
if he wanted to or if the decision to !Linux is being made higher up.

Not trolling for conspiricies here, just want to know what stores are
carrying stuff I care about so I can give them my business.  If Marana OD
is handling Linux software, I'll buy from them instead of the Oracle store.

Jim
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