On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Charles-H. Schulz < [email protected]> wrote:
> > ... if anything, we should do > ten times more marketing, and less facts. We are getting bored to hell > with facts. People don't care about facts; they want something fun they > can use and understand as fast as possible. They also want to be part > of something, like a community, and they want meaning. Facts in place > of marketing could kill Free Software, I could swear it. > > Perhaps so, but IMO the vast majority of our users and potential users have no interest in "community" or "meaning" or even "fun" -- they just want a great product that does what they want or need to do, and therefore they want facts. Obviously we see the world of software quite differently. (This may well be a generational thing, at least partly.) Your emphasis is on the production side; my interest and emphasis is on the consumption (user) side. --Jean -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
