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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 15 06:47:48 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 15 October 2010 02:19, Graham Lauder <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">yorick_ at openoffice.org</A>> wrote:
><i> On Friday 15 Oct 2010 12:14:04 J.A. 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.
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</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)
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Ahmad Samir
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