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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets</H1>
<B>Liam R E Quin</B>
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<PRE>On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 03:59 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
><i> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:13 -0400, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>><i> > SO IMHO, this is what we should seek if we want to survive. Gathering
</I>><i> > contributions should be one of our goals.
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</I>><i> In my opinion, Magiea's primary market should be linux developers,
</I>><i> since they are the people who can contribute the most. It should
</I>><i> also target people who want to use the distribution used by the people
</I>><i> who are actually developing the tools.
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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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