From kde-promo Mon Dec 19 15:13:56 2005 From: George Staikos Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:13:56 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Message-Id: <200512191013.56631.staikos () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=113500521517369 On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:13, kent@mslinux.com wrote: > > Mentioning in the future that Linus is using KDE is a good thing. But > > comparisons don't help here at all - rather the opposite: "There's no > > contender out there that would be worth to be mentioned" / "Never ever > > mention the competition" is the marketing rule that needs to be respected > > in this case. > > Where did you learn about "never ever mention the competition" in > marketing? There is this supersymmetry in marketing. Bad publicity is > also a good thing > because it brings in attention from those who have no idea what KDE is. > When the world only knows Windows and you talk shiet about Windows and > claim KDE is better and this and that. What do you think people who have > no idea of KDE would do? Do your homework in marketing. I'm getting tired of repeating it, but let's try one more time: We are aiming for the big pie, not the chunk of the 2-4% slice that we already share. We are working -with- Gnome, not against them. Trying to take advantage of this situation is wrong. This is a major issue we need to get over. We discussed this with the Gnome folks recently and we all agreed that this needs to stop on both sides. Please help us. > There are many people on this mailing list that lacks marketing > education which > I find very alarming. Using marketing to gain 1% and screw over the chances of gaining 95% in a progressive manner is very alarming. -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/ _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.