On 01/03/12 12:06, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In its
zeal to make things "just work" in a particular manner, it seems
hell-bent on ignoring all but one way to do things, even as it tries to
dominate its entire market niche to the extent that it eclipses and
marginalizes alternatives.
My two cents with other point of view:
OSs need popularity; it encourages hardware manufacturers to
write drivers and, even better, share the source. That makes
the existence of Ubuntu necessary for linux and indirectly to
freebsd.
To blame Bill or Steve and appeal to the freedom of users is
demagogy since the real dictator are the users themselves.
Unfortunately, average final user profile is nearer to my mother
in law (she obviously uses MS Windows) than people with
professional specific needs like you and me.
Negate or hide obvious FreeBSD (or Linux) limitations is the
same error than making look Ubuntu easier than it really is or
worse, make it look like something that it definitely is not.
New users feel fooled or betrayed, that's why some of them
reacts complaining. Anyway I don't feel confident enough to
assure if this is a good or bad marketing strategy. I remember,
in a very bad network curse I did some years ago, a young
classmate that after seeing for the first time the KDE desktop
disappointed exclaimed: But, It is like Windows!
I think the better strategy at long term is to be honest. Other
point to consider is that the statements done by who initiated
this thread are a "goal"; a goal does not need to be "possible"
to be useful; they are necessary like a projection, like an
idea.
I agree entirely. My bias is toward the attitude and ethics of the
corporations themselves- and their CEO's who run them.
I believe in honesty, and I hold a grudge against those in marketing
management who simply have no concept of truth- with the exception of
whoever wrote one of my marketing textbooks (which I may point out was
only used once as the powers that be - the so called gurus - promptly
withdrew in the next semester. It apparently didn't agree with "popular"
management theory, and was replaced with a 50 year old textbook on the
subject).
New users are nearly always dismayed at the apparent difficulty of
things, and should be warned that they will need to do some work "under
the hood" in order to get what they want. The honesty can start
immediately, it doesn't necessarily have to be a goal.
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