-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Marketing FOSS [part 2]
,----[ Quote ]
| We need to let people know about the hardware vendors who sell
| Linux-preinstalled systems. My personal blog includes a âhardware linksâ
| section linking to Dell, ZaReason, and System76 and a badge I made that
| says âI use ZaReason Ubuntu hardwareâ is in the sidebar. I remember seeing
| lots of Emperor Linux ads in magazines, but given their prices and that what
| they sell are machines that are only sold by the manufacturers with Windows,
| I get the impression these are simply Windows systems whicha have been
| replaced with Linux and are being resold.
`----
http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/08/10/marketing-foss-part-2/
Recent:
Linux doesn't need marketing
,----[ Quote ]
| Most Linux adepts will agree Linux could have a higher market share than it
| does today, if it had been marketed more effectively in the past. Therefore,
| lots of those adepts stress âLinux needs more marketing!â Some efforts have
| been done, most notably I remember the Indy 500 car which advertised Linux,
| and more recently the "We're Linux" Video Contest by Linux Foundation. One
| question hasn't been answered as of yet however: What's the goal of marketing
| Linux?
`----
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/120486/index.html
Editor's Note: We Put the "No" In Innovation!
,----[ Quote ]
| A general rule of marketing is "The more noise they make, the less they have
| to crow about." Who makes the most noise about "innovation"? I bet you can
| guess....
|
| Every day I get virtually snowed under by blizzards of press releases. (I'm
| not sure that email is better than paper, because I could burn paper for
| heat, or compost it. Happy red worms like paper and break it down fast.) A
| few of them actually have something to do with Linux and FOSS. The rest are
| horrid collections of buzzwords, broken HTML, political foamings, spam, and
| irrelevant whatevers.
|
| For a long time the favorite buzzword was "paradigm." Remember all those
| paradigm shifts? There was a bit of humor value because none of them used the
| word correctly. (Wikipedia has an excellent article and definition.) But it
| got boring after the thousandth dopey repetition. Finally it died out, as
| these things do, and its replacement was "innovation". Now there is a
| perfectly good word that does not deserve to be abused in this fashion, but
| marketers are ruthless and without conscience when it comes to word abuse.
`----
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-24-027-35-PS
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkqBSK0ACgkQU4xAY3RXLo49HQCgoo0s3kGYwsYxnV8CsMTLF7Ml
pzAAoJcBIv0+fhpPaCxbtb9jyRIe0B9/
=k7rw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
