[PD] PD usability

Marc Lavallée odradek at videotron.ca
Thu Feb 13 18:11:17 CET 2003


Le jeu 13/02/2003 à 16:36, delire a écrit :
> what do you mean PD needs a "marketing strategy"? 
> what's wrong with the PD user base growing at the speed it already is?

PD is not (yet) considered good enough to be teached, at least not on my
side of this world, because it does not appeal to non-technical people.
I was not expecting it could be a problem, but actually it is becoming
one for me. I'm not saying everybody should care about my situation, but
I have good reasons to think PD still need a bigger user base, althought
it's not of major importance.

> do you know what a "market" is? what is this "market" you speak of. 
> it's free man, no not "free market", _really free_ there is no hype,
> no alpha, and nothing to sell..

Do you know what "free" means? "Free" is very marketable, and there's
nothing wrong with money if we don't use it against our liberty. A poet
from Québec wrote: "La liberté n'est pas une marque de yogourt" which
translates as "Liberty is not a yogurt trademark"; yes, we do have a
yogurt named "Liberté"...  Read http://gnu.org/

Marketing PD is not necessarly about doing commercials on TV, it's about
spreading something we thing is good. If PD is not good for its target
audience, we can try to reduce the gap, by making PD easier to install
and use, and by teaching about PD. No bad capitalism involved. It's
already an ongoing process, so maybe I was too impatient.

--
Marc




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