[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Fri Oct 1 18:39:40 CEST 2010

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 03:59 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:13 -0400, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> 
+> > SO IMHO, this is what we should seek if we want to survive. Gathering
+> > contributions should be one of our goals.
+> 
+> In my opinion, Magiea's primary market should be linux developers,
+> since they are the people who can contribute the most.  It should
+> also target people who want to use the distribution used by the people
+> who are actually developing the tools.
+
+The biggest strength of Mandriva, and the reason I use(d) it, is/was
+that it targets both developers *and* people new to Linux.
+
+When I speak at conferences, people often ask me what operating
+environment I'm using, and when I tell them, they say, "oh, should
+I give it a try?" -- in most cases I can say, Yes.
+
+The Free Software Movement is about changing people's habits, getting
+them to use Free (libre) software. So targeting Windows, Mac and
+non-computer people is an important part of that.
+
+Best,
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
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