We could very well base marketing on that concept. ie: "Still thinking your software working suite in terms of * Office?"
and show that GNOME doesn't force you into using certain apps, but allows you to build your own suite in your own terms, but yet - they all "speak" to eachother hassle-free. On 4/4/07, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 23:30 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > > On 4/4/07, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we would lose an important constituency (those making purchasing > > > decisions, etc.) > > > > Those making purchasing decisions don't look at GNOME alone, look at > > distributions. They think in Firefox, they think in > > Evolution/Thunderbird, they think in OpenOffice, they care to have > > well covered the PDF, Flash, Java issues... and they don't really care > > if application X is in fact GNOME or not as far it works properly. > > > > IMveryHO trying to marketing-wise (re)build a concept of GNOME Office > > to compete against OOo is even more futile than putting energies into > > beating Firefox's success with Epiphany. > > Sure, but I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not trying to sell the > concept of GNOME Office over OOo, because I agree, I don't think that > would work. For those who really care about productivity apps on the > free desktop, OOo is the most important app (IMveryHO also ;) > > What I'm saying is that "GNOME Office" needs to be about saying to these > people, "GNOME is the best environment for running your > OpenOffice/Tbird/whatever". It's not about promoting GNOME ahead of > those apps, but promoting the idea of GNOME being the best environment > for those apps. > > At the end of the day, people will choose GNOME for a very few reasons, > but primarily I think their reasons will be based on the apps they want > to run, not because they like the look of the desktop. We should be > making their apps work better in GNOME, and telling them that if they > want the best OOo/whatever experience, that GNOME is the desktop to run. > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Panos Laganakos -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
