[ubuntu-uk] efi boot, Windows 8 and Linux

alan c aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Thu Sep 22 10:53:32 UTC 2011


On 22/09/11 11:14, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> On 22 September 2011 10:50, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/09/11 09:47, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> > We would have to do a lot of awareness raising and support things like
>> > install days to get round things like this.   as the borg say "we will
>> > adapt"
>>
>> The FLOSS world's lack of competence, or even appetite, for publicity
>> or marketing is the elephant in the room.
>>
>> 1) FLOSS, GNU/Linux etc, 'marketing' is pretty well non existent
>> compared to non free products. 'I advertise, therefore I exist'
>> (apologies to Descartes).
>>
>> 2) Of all things, marketing is -very- unsuited to the free libre,
>> distributed model.
>>
>>
> Marketing, maybe, promotion not. I would argue that that is pretty much why
> Ubuntu exists, to create a user-friendly Linux and to encourage its use.

Community was the single most important reason why I personally
started to use Ubuntu.
This is almost a word of mouth thing. Person direct to person. I am
not saying we cannot  do anything at all, just that evidence suggests
that we are not going to win with ONLY existing strategies.

Promotion: how is marketing different from promotion? Do microsoft
have a marketing department and a promotion department?
Our lack of experience in these matters is painful.
-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user



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