On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:24 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > I agree with this. Developers who actually make OpenOffice.org (as opposed > to people like me who just talk about it and promote it) should have as > much, if not more say, in this than I do.
Chad, on the evidence of this and many other threads, my dead cat should have more say in anything to do with this than you do. > They have obviously made their > choice - several times, as the issue report has been filed on numerous > occassions. There's no point to debate this further. In that case the marketing project might as well pack up and go home. Well I suppose we could stay and design some nice CD labels. I wonder why MS and the other large software companies spend so much on marketing and customer research when actually if they just left it to the developers they would get better results? Better still, leave it to Chad, he is the expert even in fields in which he has no qualifactions or training. > As I've pointed out in the other threads, there are innumerable other > interactive distractions on any personal computer that a student maybe > using. Some Tic Tac Toe game or Space Invaders clone (which has a feature > to prevent repeated use) is not going to add to the problem. If educators > seem to think that it is, the person marketing to them needs to be ready > with an answer for that. The person marketing to them says get into some public schools and talk to some teachers and find out about marketing to schools before you start preaching to others who have some real experience of it. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
