Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Karl Fischer
May be the 2006 Marketing Slogan should be : Intelligence through Excellence ;) Karl On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:37 +0200, Žygimantas Beručka wrote: An, 2005 12 13 13:29 -0500, Rajiv Vyas rašė: Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. Very smart and influential yes,

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:31 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Rather, this is our opportunity to: a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. and other things. Hallelujah, brother! And thanks again to

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:31:51 -0800 Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our opportunity to: a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
I'm not sure if processing feedback will be sufficient. no existing task is sufficient on its own, but there are many productive steps we could take. and definitely, processing feedback won't have any use unless developers do something about that feedback. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D -

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
And thanks again to Santiago for collecting the negative reviews. Maybe this will give his work more oomph in some people's minds? btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, thanks! -- marketing-list

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
John Williams wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful,

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. On 12/13/05, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh god... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list

slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
oh god... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We need to thank him for generating so much press. That should raise our profile in many trade rags. We need to tell the press people we are open for interviews and what not so that we can give people a balanced view. ;) sri On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:29:49PM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: Very

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Žygimantas Beručka
An, 2005 12 13 13:29 -0500, Rajiv Vyas rašė: Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. Very smart and influential yes, intelligent no, YOU FUCKIN IDIOTS. Considering his mails should we market GNOME as 'intelligent' instead of 'usable'? :) It sounds cool and raises a

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Murray Cumming
We need to thank him for generating so much press. That should raise our profile in many trade rags. We need to tell the press people we are open for interviews and what not so that we can give people a balanced view. ;) Good idea. I've mentioned that on my blog, so it appears on

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Jerome Gotangco
As jdub would roughly put it Don't Panic. Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +639196555242 GPG: 0xA97B69A0 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
As jdub would roughly put it Don't Panic. well i never said we should panic, but it's something we should be keeping an eye on. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hi, On 12/14/05, Santiago Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As jdub would roughly put it Don't Panic. well i never said we should panic, but it's something we should be keeping an eye on. I don't see a reason to Panic. This flamewar has been going on for ages and will never end. So yes, Linus

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Santiago Roza wrote: oh god... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 Well the thread is slowly reaching troll stages on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and GNOMEUsability - so perhaps it would worthwhile to figure out what exactly Linus is getting at. And on second thoughts why not blog

Re: slashdot: linus says use kde

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our opportunity to: a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. and other