On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 10:57 PM, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Thanks, Lyvim. You've got the idea right on. I'm not talking about long term at all... would we like to see Mandrake boxes in every Walmart, Best Buy, Future Shop, K-Mart, Zellers, (insert your favourite computer or all-purpose store here)? Absolutely! Will they have it tomorrow? No. Will this help us with the recently posted "call to arms"? No.Some short comings in this statement....That is exactly right. That is the context of this (Vincent's) message;
First it ensures that the only people who can find out how to purchase
a boxes set are people who have in the past used MDK...
this is a short term solution, Vincent was not presenting this post as a
catch all philosophy for long term growth; it was a gesture to those of
us in the community who already have an online relationship with
Mandrakesoft.
Those are all long term goals and while I'm not involved in that aspect of the company, I'm sure these things are being worked on, but those things take time. Time we don't have if our existing user base doesn't step forward.
It's great to be thinking long term but, at this point in time, a little premature to think long term and sacrifice the short term. I'm afraid if we concentrated on long term and neglected the short term, there will *be* no long term.
So while James made some very good points, they're pretty much irrelevant to the topic at hand which is, looking at the subject line, Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft, which is happening *now*... not next year.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
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