On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 09:09 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > How about a healthy dose of ambition and aim for becoming the best > > platform of choice, regardless of the freeness? > > All desktops are aiming for that, free or not. And honestly, most > desktops are "good enough". > > > > We're already the most free and open platform out there. > > But we seem embarrassed to promote that fact heavily. > > > > Let's focus on how we can become the best platform overall... > > I don't think "best" matters that much to "average users". I mean, > people use Windows despite its headline-worthy flaws. > > > Personally, my company moved to Gnome/Gnu/Linux because: > > 1) We found that our MS Exchange Server stored data in bizarre > proprietary hard-to-backup format which requires specialized proprietary > backups programs, and as a result, we lost a lot of email in a crash. > This is a "freedom of data" issue. It is much easier to backup simple > text files in a dovecot maildir! > > 2) We wanted to print photos with their filenames at the bottom of the > page. Impossible with the crummy Windows software. Easy, if we patched > gThumb! This was a "freedom to change" issue. > > > > Obviously I want Gnome to be the "best" too. However, I think freedom is > a key Gnome attribute that is easy to explain, easy to promote, and > truly different and better than the competing offerings.
I fully agree that this is great and this is good stuff for marketing. However, if we need a strategy, we need to focus on other things. We don't need to play the freedom card again, we're already best at that. My main point was that when it comes to making a big plan, we need to tackle the harder issues where we're lagging behind. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
