[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Sat Oct 2 02:06:44 CEST 2010

Graham Lauder wrote:
+>
+> Oh for Jiminys' sake, is there something in the water that causes you to be so 
+> literal.  I SAID HYPOTHETICAL!  What I was trying to do was demonstrate in a 
+> lighthearted manner that NOONE, me included, can experience on their own, a 
+> global market.  That's why some  of us pay huge amounts of money to the market 
+> research companies for this sort of info.
+>
+> This is now wasting my time
+>   
+
+OK, I'll bite the bullet and be the one to tell you.  Your style in
+posting these comments has reeked of an assumed position of superiority,
+so it should not be surprising to you that people have taken umbrage,
+and will not pass up any opportunity to point out inconsistencies in
+your posts. 
+
+And you *are* inconsistent, as has been pointed out repeatedly.  You
+tend to gloss over the inconsistencies with a message of "trust me, I
+know what I'm talking about, I'm an expert, and I should be in charge"
+while you disparage the opinions and life experiences of the other
+posters.  You don't seem to grasp that a community distro is fueled by
+people who contribute for reasons meaningful to them, not you.
+
+In most companies not run by techies, marketing is given the ultimate
+power.  Marketing determines what the customers want, Development
+decides how to produce it, and Sales sells it.  As I've tried to point
+out to you repeatedly, this is not a company.  This is a
+community-fueled distro doing things for reasons that motivate *them*,
+not you.  There is no CEO or Board of Directors to slam down a mandate
+that marketing is in charge, and there are no shareholders to back that
+up because we have to show a profit.
+
+Unless all of the technical contributors on whom the success of this
+distro rely for some reason decide to sign on to your vision of a distro
+configured for and targeted for your chosen audience, it simply isn't
+going to happen.  They do the work because they benefit by it (or their
+vision of the distro benefits by it).
+
+