On 7/25/05, Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea of an installable live cd is a great one, until you realize > the implications. > > The basically makes Gnome a distribution, which does the following bad things: > > 1. Gnome does not have the support structure to support average users,
www.gnomesupport.org > nor should it gain one. Then what are communities good for? People love to support each other. What the fsck do you think Microsoft is making its money with? It is tens of millions of people who do unpaid support by helping out their parents, grandparents, relatives and friends. A simple example: how many people are really able to install a wlan at home? My guess is only 10% of those who have one installed. And the communities are one of the greatest strengths of open source. Tell me one good reason why not to build on it. > That is the job of Novell, RH, Ubuntu, etc. and Microsoft? By the way; why has Canonical kicked out support to Ubuntu instead of doing it under its own name? Simply because that is not managable for a company. Have you ever bought a SuSE and called their support? They are callcenter loonies having no clue and giving you circular answers. Example: the colored side of the DVD must be upside. > 2. You further divide up the mindshare, but directly competeing with > the above mentioned distros Consequently thinking your reasoning to the end means that GNOME should disappear from public to avoid "dividing mindshare". > So lets leave the live cd as a nice test bed Yes, and lets rename the marketing list into anti-marketing list. |-( Marcus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list