On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 22:42, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 10:57 PM, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > >> Some short comings in this statement.... > >> > >> 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... > > > > That is exactly right. That is the context of this (Vincent's) > > message; > > 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. > > 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. > > 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!
I was commenting on the letter in the thread immediately before me, and if the short term doesn't include the long term (or vice versa ) It can be counter productive. If MDK had a million box sets in the stores right now. Making 5 bucks a crack... would 5 mill help the short term bottom line? Yes I know that it can often be 30 to 60 days before this comes in but this kind of recievable would have possibly prevented the pull out of certain funds MDK was expecting (taken from the website announcement.) I don't wish or desire to denigrate the original letter.. but rather say yes I agree .... but more is needed for both short and long term success. I want to buy MDK 11.4 (yes I know they never get that high with sub numbers *grin*) I just hope there won't be another crisis like this right after 9.1 comes out, but the pattern is in place. I'm a club member, I buy my disks (not just download them, although I do that while waiting for my disks) I encourage others to buy not download. And right now... I'm tapped. My company is reaching an equally tight cash situation... but then again.... we are still privately funded with no Angel or Vulture investment. (soon to change) James
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