Should I feel ethically compelled to keep it? [View All]

[Deja Q]

I had gone to best buy 27 days ago. Using the moeny I got back from a product replacement plan, I'd bought a hardware firewall and SuSE Linux 9. (keep in mind that a month prior to this, I bought a DVD copy for $13.)

27 days ago, they had 5 copies.

Today they were down to 2. Also note, Red Hat Linux (both archaic version 7.2 and newer 9.0 releases) had vanished. I think they shipped some of the stuff back to the manufacturers or warehouse or recycle bin...

If I return it, they may not carry 9.1 when it comes out and I do hate ordering from the internet...

(I also noticed CompUSA, when SuSE 9 came out, had 12 copies. Two months later, I noticed they'd all gone. I talked with a sales chap and he said they'd just shipped a bunch of boxes back to their distributor.)

Also note, an article several months ago said that Best Buy would carry StarOffice 7 in their stores (I'm happy with 6.0; though version 7 is faster and adds PDF export support, they took away other features...). To date, they haven't been selling it at all. It's a mecca of microsoft over there. :-(