On 22 September 2011 10:50, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> On 22/09/11 09:47, Paul Sutton wrote: > > We would have to do a lot of awareness raising and support things like > > install days to get round things like this. as the borg say "we will > > adapt" > > The FLOSS world's lack of competence, or even appetite, for publicity > or marketing is the elephant in the room. > > 1) FLOSS, GNU/Linux etc, 'marketing' is pretty well non existent > compared to non free products. 'I advertise, therefore I exist' > (apologies to Descartes). > > 2) Of all things, marketing is -very- unsuited to the free libre, > distributed model. > > Marketing, maybe, promotion not. I would argue that that is pretty much why Ubuntu exists, to create a user-friendly Linux and to encourage its use. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "Is this your sanderling?"
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