Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> On 7/14/06, *Jeff Waugh* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> I have been banging on this drum in the Ubuntu community for a
> while, but I
> guess I haven't been banging it sufficiently loud in GNOME: Whenever
> we talk
> about GNOME, we *must* talk first and foremost about benefits, and
> then back
> it up with the features.
>
>
> Amen. :)
>
> One of the things that seems to be drifting with GNOME both in its
> current form and in the upcoming (and proposed Topaz) is that a whole
> bunch of features are getting tossed at the end user without actively
> bundling them together in a coherent whole of benefits accrued.
>
> Why would end users use GNOME and thus Linux unless they are sold on the
> benefits of using them ? The bells and whistles would come later and
> would come in a logical followup.
>
wrt marketing, Seth Godin ("Purple Cow") does a good job arguing for
making something that stands out, vs. figuring out how to get whatever
you made to stand out (after you're done making it).
thought about from a design rather than marketing angle; why would end
users use GNOME and Linux if those things were not designed/invented to
benefit them?
The goal should not be "get people to use Linux" but to provide benefits
to people. Linux or GNOME or Java or Mono or a web site or a hardware
device or whatever it is should be implementation, not goal.
Havoc
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