<tt>ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com wrote on 27/03/2007 16:16:13: > gord wrote: > [...] > > I asked the manager at a local Computer World store about a possible > open source display event. Apart from it all being 'head office sir' > stuff, it was also said that if they did not sell it they would not be > interested in displaying it.</tt> <tt>So they never have ISP CDs by the tills? Or charity boxes?</tt> <tt>Did you suggest to them that, perhaps, some people would deliberately visit their store if there was such a thing, and that getting people into the shop is the hardest battle for them in the days of internet shopping, and an associated sell might be useful?</tt> <tt>Perhaps suggesting that they run a CD toaster of some sort - no reason why they couldn't charge a bit for burning some CDs for people? (http://www.freedomtoaster.org/ ;) )</tt> <tt>mrBen</tt>