> I apologize profusely to anyone who has been offended by my last Email. > In retrospect maybe it was a little to "ad-y" for this forum. > My intentions were simply to arouse awareness to the fact that something > like this exists. If this was perceived differently, I apologize.
Creating a technical reputation is an important part of successfully marketing to folks like us. One of the reasons Novell does so well here (and Red Hat is still playing catchup, regardless of how well Brad Hinson does his job) is that SuSE (and then Novell) invested a lot of people and time in helping people in public, early and often. This makes a big difference in perception. In general, a suggestion that might work for you in the future: put anything remotely "ad-y" outside the forum, and comment that: "We've introduced an interesting new widget for frobnicating feezils. If you're interested in more details, see http://www.fubar.org/feezilfrob."; and leave it at that. That generally doesn't upset people as much as naked marketing-speak. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
