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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 +</I>><i> >> >> uphold. I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we +</I>><i> >> >> _can be a 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 +</I>><i> > for these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we +</I>><i> > must comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and difficult +</I>><i> > to use" that there is the best system around the world and that they +</I>><i> > didn't try it yet. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into +</I>><i> getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :) +</I> +in fact (in compatibility with manpower and marketing decisions) we must offer +an increasingly ease of use also for those people (without forgetting mentors +help) + +><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 +</I>><i> > linux=difficult. if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say +</I>><i> > to you "ah, cool", but they won't ever install it . +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > cheers, +</I>><i> > Marcello +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia" +</I>><i> but ""Mageia" the Linux distro".... +</I> +it is only a different POV. (but interesting in my opinion).. you say linux- +><i>mageia, i say mageia->linux : ) +</I> + +cheers, +Marcello +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002417.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002403.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2419">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2419">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2419">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2419">[ 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> |