At 12:02 PM 12/1/2003, Bill Stoddard wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >>At 07:00 AM 12/1/2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: >> >>>*Maybe* resulted from good marketing effort :-) >> >>BTW - realize that Apache is not only not-for-profit, but is a charitable >>organization. Some folks might not be comfortable with the phrase >>'marketing' although it certainly applies. >>If you want to avoid offense, a much better term for your efforts (and >>more recognizable in the western open-source world) is evangelism. > >How 'bout 'advocacy'? 'Evangelism' carries some baggage of its own here in the >U.S of A.
You are right... Advocacy is a much better phrase to describe championing a project... Evangelism is better applied to the debate of GNU v.s. BSD licenses, since it sort of implies a faith in some underlying principal that folks may not see eyeball to eyeball on. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
