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No Retail Shelf Space for LInux at WalMart
Walmart won't be restocking Everex inexpensive Linux running computers at their retail outlets. They will continue selling them online however.
.."Wal-Mart sold out the in-store gPC inventory but decided not to restock, O'Brien said. The company does not reveal sales figures for individual items."..more, "no Linux here, but be sure to check out our multiple aisles of *quality* imported and inspected... for your safety and convenience toys and Easter candy!", there
ed: reminds me of when GM came out with the EV1 electric car, then provided hardly any of them, sold none, only leased, then went "See! See! Toldyaso!! Our customers don't want them!", despite all of them leasing-out and customers pleading to buy them later on. So, a few years later, Honda and primarily Toyota are eating their lunch and jumped them by a decade with electric hybrids and they are scrambling to catch up and now admit maybe they made a mistake back then (along with the huge PR blackeye they got with the documentary movie about it).
Same deal with Linux and computers, they-walmart or any other retailer, can *force* it to be a self fulfilling prophecy-for..whatever...reason. I know at my local walmart, the electronics alleged help personnel had zero idea walmart sold linux PCs and basically said I was misinformed (a liar), so I called them on that. I made them go look it up at their floor access "lookup" terminal, and showed them it was in fact "for sale". Which shows me quite clearly they didn't even inform their own sales "associates" about it, and that the "associates" can't even be bothered to see what the heck they can actually sell on their own initiative.