On 15 October 2010 17:00, Marcello Anni <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 15 October 2010 16:22, Marcello Anni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way in >> >> the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as >> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who >> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold. >> >> I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a >> >> successful Linux distro_. >> > >> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes >> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering >> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too >> > diffult... do you agree? >> > >> > >> > >> > Marcello >> >> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever >> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows >> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc >> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software > > no, we don't want to search those people. the people that choose linux for > these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we must > comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and difficult to use" that > there is the best system around the world and that they didn't try it yet. >
Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :) >> then he looks for a distro and start using it. >> >> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to >> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use. > > more than seeing an OS from their friends (that is really useful anyway, > overall in the first steps), i would like to change the synonim > linux=difficult. > if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say to you "ah, cool", but > they won't ever install it . > > cheers, > Marcello > I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia" but ""Mageia" the Linux distro".... -- Ahmad Samir
