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Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as +</I>>><i> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who +</I>>><i> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold. +</I>>><i> >> I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a +</I>>><i> >> successful Linux distro_. +</I>>><i> > +</I>>><i> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes +</I>>><i> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering +</I>>><i> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too +</I>>><i> > diffult...  do you agree? +</I>>><i> > +</I>>><i> > +</I>>><i> > +</I>>><i> > Marcello +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever +</I>>><i> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows +</I>>><i> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc +</I>>><i> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software +</I>><i> +</I>><i> no, we don't want to search those people. the people that choose linux for +</I>><i> these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we must +</I>><i> comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and  difficult to use" that +</I>><i> there is the best system around the world and that they didn't try it yet. +</I>><i> +</I> +Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into +getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :) + +>><i> then he looks for a distro and start using it. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to +</I>>><i> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> more than seeing an OS from their friends (that is really useful anyway, +</I>><i> overall in the first steps), i would like to change the synonim linux=difficult. +</I>><i> if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say to you "ah, cool", but +</I>><i> they won't ever install it . +</I>><i> +</I>><i> cheers, +</I>><i> Marcello +</I>><i> +</I> +I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia" +but ""Mageia" the Linux distro".... + +-- +Ahmad Samir +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002416.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002419.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2417">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2417">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2417">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2417">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |