Hi, Cutting most of your thoughts with one observation: getting to the right person to make these sorts of arguments, and extrapolating from the flighty arguments to the bottom line, is not a simple thing. A good start would be to draw up a list of companies who *should* have a bottom line affected by Linux, and then try to figure out who the right person to contact in each of these companies is.
Yuval: I'll leave this first step (the list of companies) as an exercise for you ;-) Yuval Levy wrote: > take that "Linux" away. compromise. Graphic apps are the most desired > apps, full stop. This is not true though. The most used application on the desktop, by a mile, is the web browser. Followed by an email client. Followed by (depending on your age) games or word processing software. Very few people, when asked what they do with a computer, actually do any graphics work. And yet, when you ask people considering adopting Linux on the desktop what apps they miss most, they say "Photoshop", "Illustrator", "Visio". > <thought provoking> > have you thought of inviting the Adobe's of this world to LGM? or even > to sponsor LGM? > </thought provoking> At its inception, Libre Graphics Meeting is about showcasing free software graphics applications, and enabling free software graphics developers to meet and exchange ideas. Personally, I would invite Adobe if they started releasing some of their graphics applications as free software. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
