Op vr, 18-08-2006 te 15:09 -0500, schreef Rich Johnson: > True, not all of them are bad, however they aren't open. They can't be > personal, and if they do, it has to be for Microsoft.
Of course they won't say very bad things about their employer in public (some do that anonymously, like mini-microsoft), but I can't see any open source developer telling really bad things about their employer and not expecting to be thrown out afterwards either. > Say we had 2 > versions of Ubuntu, one open source, and one proprietary closed source. We > can't market them the same, as they would have different objectives or uses. Very often, a free version (free as in speech or as in beer) is used to get some grassroots marketing for a paid version. Of course that only works out well if the free version is good and useful, and the paid version has enough added value... ;-) > Grassroots campaigns are very good, however they will only go so far. There > aren't many, if any, organizations that base their entire marketing scheme on > grassroots campaigning. Most shareware authors do that, and some "open source companies" do it. Many local companies do it. It's easier to do for small and/or local companies than for big internationals though... > I think every member, if possible, of the marketing team should be a part of > an Ubuntu LoCo, or at least a LUG. Most members of LUGs already use Linux and/or another UNIX-like OS. IME, it's very difficult to get them to promote 1 single distro. -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
