ubuntu marketing
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 22:18:34 UTC 2008
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Plus if you look at reviews of linux distributions most of them have a
> category "How easy is it to go to youtube and watch videos" because that
> is what desktop users do and expect from any desktop.
Here are some truths that I hold dear. I believe that they are
*fundamental* truths of the Fedora project.
1. It's not always easy to be true *free software* advocates. We take the
good with the bad.
2. The people we care most about are people who care about advancing the
best of *free software*.
3. Ubuntu is already catering to users who are willing to sacrifice
freedom for the sake of *marginal* usability advantage. There's really no
reason for us to follow them down that path. Will it cost us users? It
certainly will. But we are *extremely* competitive with Ubuntu when it
comes to *contributors* -- and it's *contributors* who change the world.
Let Spaceman worry about being popular. Let's concern ourselves with
being right, and being productive -- even when it's difficult.
"Fedora -- Ubuntu's more responsible older brother."
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Greg DeKoenigsberg
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Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
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...from him much shall be asked"
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