Lintard wrote:
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> Marketing, there you go! Linux certainly has great prospects but little
> presence in the market and little promotion. COLA, that is supposed to
> discuss more about Linux ends up discussing a lot about Microsoft
> products.
That's the charter of an OS *.advocacy group.
> Someone's got to promote Linux and erase the misconceptions in
> general public's mind. General public still thinks Linux is for
> hobbyists.
Heh, "someone." Why not you? And not here. In case you haven't
figured it out, c.o.l.a is not relevant. Not even to techies. c.o.l.a
is for shunting unwanted posts away from real newsgroups. For myself,
it is a way of procrastinating when I'm supposed to be moving boxes.
I've also gotten a bit of computer news due to Roy's ticker-tape
service. Finally, I hold a dim hope that some young buck with abundant
energy will actually heed the words of an older hand and do something
useful for a change.
I tried to promote Python a few years back, as did a number of other
people. At the time, Guido and the PSF were havin' none of that!
Eventually Guido joined Google, and Google made "adult things" happen
with Python's marketing. They finally got a decent website. It could
have happened 2 years earlier.
I tried to promote OCaml, an obscure academic computing language. I
came to realize the critical mass wasn't there, and that trying to
persuade techies of anything was a lost cause.
I have refrained from promoting Chicken Scheme, except by occasional
mention. I just work on high quality build systems for it. I haven't
proven it for game development, so I won't turn on the marketing juice
until I do.
Here is an example of the kind of website you should devise if you want
to actually promote Linux: http://pythonology.org/success It lacks
eye candy but it does have substance. Of course if you want to go
after the consumer desktop, you'll have to provide proper eye candy to
go along with the meat.
> Who cares about Microsoft, at least here? Do you?
Better care, or no one on the Windows side of the fence will take you
seriously.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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