2006/12/18, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thilo: Tell me why (costly) collaboration on marketing issues is going to be > of more benefit than (cheaper) focus on our own awesomeness. I'm not keen to > read another essay answering a totally different question, though. :-)
Jeff: Why is collaboration on marketing more costly as if every project focuses only to self? Your question is suggestive, which is simply not correct to do. So I am not going to answer a question that you allready have answered yourself. If I would agree to the terms of your question you were right. If you think freedesktop-promo is a bad idea or if you do not have the time you do not need to join this efforts. Nobody forces you. I think it is very worthwhile to invest my time in these efforts, simply because it could reduce a lot of redundancy. And I also think that if we want to make a huge step forward we only can market the "free desktop" - it just does not make sense to market KDE or GNOME to the masses. And advertising one will always hurt the other desktop, because we then compete in media attention, what we are doing already right now. Not because of somebody being negative but only through the way marketing is currently done. Marketing GNOME is possible, like I ellaborated on GNOMEs marketing list, but only if we tell people honestly what they get and what they wont get. If both, KDE and GNOME argument in the same way the chance of simply being ignored or at least confuse people are greater. Thilo -- Blog: http://vinci.wordpress.com Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
