> What exactly is it that you think that the marketing team can > accomplish in this discussion that mailing list posts from jeff waugh > and havoc pennington, hundreds of impassioned posts on slashdot, and > hundreds of impassioned posts on blogs (totally ignoring the nearly > four years of discussion behind this) have not already done?
many things, as a matter of fact: - coverage: linus' rant had its own slashdot story, jeff's and havoc's responses didn't. i guess for each 100 people who read the story, 2 went to the mailing list archives and checked for the responses. - seriousness: a calm, logical, non-controversial response will always look more convincing than hundreds of "impassioned posts", which btw only get read by 10% (or so) of the people who read the headline. - coherence: even a pseudo-official response would make our points sound more coherent than isolated mailing list replies, not to mention it'd get to people who doesn't know who havoc is. - exposure: it looks like a good opportunity for the marketing team to get some public appearance, and at the same time start to take care of real marketing issues, like public relations. i guess i could try to add more, but it seems like you no one cares much anyway, so whatever. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list