Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We should bring this up as a thread on ddl when you've compiled it. (or maybe we should decide here whether we need to bring it up in DDL as a general discussion or to approach individual maintainers seperately) Personally, going with the maintainers is a better idea. Opening it up the peanut gal

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
John Williams wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, th

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: > btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde > thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid > points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, thanks! -- marketing-list ma

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
> And thanks again to Santiago for collecting the negative reviews. Maybe > this will give his work more "oomph" in some people's minds? btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be

Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
On 12/14/05, Thilo Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, we never get people to install and use GNOME. no, at least not if "people" are windows end users. > If we do not want > that, why do we considering working with a GNOME brand? because the fact that we're not an end user final produ

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
> I'm not sure if processing feedback will be sufficient. no existing task is "sufficient" on its own, but there are many productive steps we could take. and definitely, processing feedback won't have any use unless developers do something about that feedback. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:31:51 -0800 Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) > No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our > opportunity to: > > a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent f

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:31 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Rather, this is our opportunity to: > > a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback > b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. > > and other things. Hallelujah, brother! And thanks again to Sa

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Karl Fischer
May be the 2006 Marketing Slogan should be : Intelligence through Excellence ;) Karl On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:37 +0200, Žygimantas Beručka wrote: > An, 2005 12 13 13:29 -0500, Rajiv Vyas rašė: > > Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. > > Very smart and influential yes