> On 15 October 2010 17:00, Marcello Anni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 15 October 2010 16:22, Marcello Anni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way > >> >> in the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as > >> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who > >> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to > >> >> uphold. I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we > >> >> _can be a successful Linux distro_. > >> > > >> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes > >> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering > >> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too > >> > diffult... do you agree? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Marcello > >> > >> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever > >> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows > >> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc > >> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software > > > > no, we don't want to search those people. the people that choose linux > > for these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we > > must comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and difficult > > to use" that there is the best system around the world and that they > > didn't try it yet. > > Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into > getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :)
in fact (in compatibility with manpower and marketing decisions) we must offer an increasingly ease of use also for those people (without forgetting mentors help) > >> then he looks for a distro and start using it. > >> > >> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to > >> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use. > > > > more than seeing an OS from their friends (that is really useful anyway, > > overall in the first steps), i would like to change the synonim > > linux=difficult. if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say > > to you "ah, cool", but they won't ever install it . > > > > cheers, > > Marcello > > I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia" > but ""Mageia" the Linux distro".... it is only a different POV. (but interesting in my opinion).. you say linux- >mageia, i say mageia->linux : ) cheers, Marcello
