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Magallón wrote: +</I>>><i> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:30:25 +1300, Graham Lauder <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">yorick_ at openoffice.org</A>> +</I>><i> wrote: +</I>>><i> > We are in the desktop computing market, the chunk we want a part of is at +</I>>><i> > present occupied by MS.  In this market the name we want to promote is +</I>>><i> > Mageia, we have no need to identify with Linux. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Don't know how much salt I need for this, but please don't even try that, +</I>>><i> specially for non techincal people. +</I>>><i> They will think: ah, I can choose Windows, Linux or Mageia. Lets try some +</I>>><i> linux, people talk well about it...who will I impress if I said I installed +</I>>><i> a 'Mageia' ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If Impressing someone else with their Computing platform is important to a +</I>><i> person, they will go Mac. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Compare to 'hey, I finally found a Linux distro I can use', 'which one', +</I>>><i> 'mageia', 'mmm, lets try it...'. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The plethora of distributions simply adds confusion.  Are people deciding on +</I>><i> Mac deciding between OSX and FreeBSD? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For nontechnical people Linux is confusing, because nontechnical people aren't +</I>><i> going to be able to make a sensible choice between a deb based or rpm based, +</I>><i> Gnome centric or KDE centric, zypper yum or apt and on and on. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Ask a nontechnical user "What is a distribution?"  what do you think the +</I>><i> answer would be.  People identify with brands.  The question that they will +</I>><i> most likely ask is Windows, Ubuntu, Mac or Mageia?(eventually :)  )  Linux +</I>><i> will feature for some but only a small minority. +</I>><i> +</I> +I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way in +the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as +"Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who +contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold. +I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a +successful Linux distro_. + +Now I don't see anything wrong in getting users to educate themselves +on what Linux is, that's a 10 minute search on the internet :) + +><i> Nontechnical people, especially coming from a windows environment simply want +</I>><i> to know:  "Will it do what I can do now in Windows", they really don't care +</I>><i> about the kernel or any of the other stuff. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Graham Lauder, +</I>><i> OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> INGOTs Assessor Trainer +</I>><i> (International Grades in Open Technologies) +</I>><i> www.theingots.org +</I>><i> +</I> + + +-- +Ahmad Samir +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002402.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002412.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2404">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2404">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2404">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2404">[ 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> |