-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Spencer wrote on 13/09/10 22:10: >... > I disagree that "no one" will be impressed. We are the only Linux > distro that has anything like this. While it is not yet perfected, it > is totally new and ground-breaking for a FLOSS project to offer this. > I think we will be compared to 10.04 and other distros that have no > store front functionality.
I was exaggerating just a little. :-) It's true that people who use Ubuntu and nothing else will compare 10.10 only to 10.04. But people who have ever used the iTunes App Store, or Steam, or Bodega, or Linspire CNR (which has been doing this since 2002) will compare us with those. We're already seeing harbingers of this: <http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3896946_2/Why-is-Ubuntu-Succeeding-Where-Linspire-Failed.htm> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/ubuntu_maverick_meerkat_beta/> >... > But note that we are not Apple or Amazon. We are Ubuntu. We are a > community distro, and we do things our way. For example, we ship every > 6 months on schedule, we get feedback from users and the community, and > we respond to it in the next release. >... Sarah is a 25-year-old local government employee who took part in one of our user tests last year. She happened to encounter the page in the Ubuntu Help that talks about just that, beginning "Ubuntu is a community developed operating system". She looked at us incredulously. "To be honest I think of that as PR talk ... It appeals to people. I wouldn't have any technological understanding to that, if there is one." So, let's make something that doesn't appeal just to those who read OMG Ubuntu. Let's go make something Sarah would trust. One thing that wasn't in the screencast, but that I should have mentioned yesterday: The e-mail payment confirmation has improved greatly in the past couple of weeks and is quite good now. Thanks to Ricardo for the work he's done on that. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyPSdIACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpUIQCdHju/Jo96nbYkhQAR+wKfzVeB GrEAoKiXumrXsDi6neWaEfW4PnLLCRCb =o9mu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~buy-something Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~buy-something More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
