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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE 3.5 is very alive! Possible Dot-Story?
From:       Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-04-05 19:42:28
Message-ID: 200604052137.54273.k1pfeifle () gmx ! net
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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 19:57, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 19:56, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Also, it is not "negative comparative marketing". It is positive about
> > KDE. And even what you call negative comparative marketing is to be
> > viewed differently, if...
> > 
> > a) ...it is backed up with facts and screenshots, and if it is
> > clearly characterized as a personal preference thing too;
> 
> Not necessarily. From a "neutral" editor perhaps. But from someone affiliated 
> with the KDE project, questionable at best. Things like these have backfired 
> before, it's about time we learn from History.
> 
> Even worse would be linking from the Dot or other prominent KDE sites to 
> inflammatory content.
> 
> > b) ...it is not against a fellow FOSS project, but against someone
> > "from the outside";
> 
> That doesn't give us much of a mature image to the outside world either, it's 
> really not much better than taking cheap shots at other free software 
> desktops, if at all.
> 
> Now, the article isn't written yet,

It is! 60% of it. But all of you who commented are 100% guessing.

> and perhaps it turns out nicely. But from  
> what you write here I am not getting excited yet.

Ciao,
Kurt
 
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