Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-08 Thread Jeffrey G. Causey, CPA
Lars, Well, I took a stab at adding a comment to issue 61685 (which appears to be the currently open issue for this). http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61685 Not sure whether it will help or not... Jeff Causey On Monday February 06 2006 09:40, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Some of yo

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Some of you with better verbal skill will need to coax the developers in to being willing to even discuss the matter. Currently the issue is bug number 61683, but by the time you check it will probably be closed again: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61683 Just becaus

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-07 Thread Chad Smith
Thanks Laurent! On 2/7/06, Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chad > > > Why do you guys hate fun? > > > > http://oooconv.free.fr/lebooolier/lebooolier_fr.html > As i told when announcing it > "OOo is too serious not to play with it" > > the webpage is in french, the file has been tr

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-07 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi Chad Why do you guys hate fun? http://oooconv.free.fr/lebooolier/lebooolier_fr.html As i told when announcing it "OOo is too serious not to play with it" the webpage is in french, the file has been translated in english (and more language) not tested under OOo2 HAVE FUN !! Laurent -

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:29 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > > As for Ian's claim about the schools - Not a claim, I used to Inspect schools for a living. Its like telling a developer they "claim" using Go Tos in a programme is bad practice. > Do these schools remove all games > from their computers

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:38 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Hello Ian, > > Ian Lynch wrote: > > > Making it possible for an > >admin to block all Easter Eggs would be a quick fix. > > > > > Forgive me for this question, but I thought that MS Office had > Easter-Eggs too. Yes it has but its th

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven Pauwels
Chad Smith schreef: On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Chad, You are hurting my feelings :) I am al about fun :) Easter eggs simply are *not fun at all* and if you disagree with an issue, try to keep your remarks directed to the issue, don't get personal. All this a

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Chad, > > You are hurting my feelings :) I am al about fun :) > > Easter eggs simply are *not fun at all* and if you disagree with an > issue, try to keep your remarks directed to the issue, don't get personal. > > All this anger :) fo

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:34 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > Why do you guys hate fun? I get more fun seeing people install OOo than playing with an Easter Egg therefore I would rather remove things that give people reasons not to install OOo in my target market. Why make it more difficult than necessa

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven Pauwels
Chad Smith schreef: On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chad Smith schreef: Sorry Chad, you lifted a part of my post out of the context: I am opposed to having easter eggs in the first place, I find them a sign of immaturity and they highlight the power developpers th

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chad Smith schreef: > > > > Sorry Chad, you lifted a part of my post out of the context: I am > opposed to having easter eggs in the first place, I find them a sign of > immaturity and they highlight the power developpers think they have... >

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven Pauwels
Chad Smith schreef: On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Making it possible for an admin to block all easter eggs is an unnecessary action. It is NOT a good thing to promote OOo with say: Unlike our competitor software, in OOo, you can easely block all Easter eggs! Wow!... t

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Making it possible for an admin to block all easter eggs is an > unnecessary action. It is NOT a good thing to promote OOo with say: > Unlike our competitor software, in OOo, you can easely block all Easter > eggs! Wow!... there's a reason t

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Steven Pauwels
Ian Lynch schreef: On the discuss list the issue of the Easter Eggs in Calc came up. On the surface it appears that these are harmless fun and that was my first reaction, Easter Eggs are fairly common in competing products. Go a bit below the surface and thinking about it some more, there are so

[Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On the discuss list the issue of the Easter Eggs in Calc came up. On the surface it appears that these are harmless fun and that was my first reaction, Easter Eggs are fairly common in competing products. Go a bit below the surface and thinking about it some more, there are some marketing issues to

Re: [Marketing] Easter eggs - good or bad for marketing?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Ian, Ian Lynch wrote: > Making it possible for an >admin to block all Easter Eggs would be a quick fix. > > Forgive me for this question, but I thought that MS Office had Easter-Eggs too. So what would happen in the same occasion if people were using MS Office? A way to block those, howev