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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league...
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-06-08 15:29:12
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On Friday 08 June 2001 17:10, Mathias Waack wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2001 16:02, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > The hopes is that we will have
> > some form of US PR agency to attack the market.  $$$ is the
> > question.
> 
> PR agency? Market? $$$? 
> 
> KDE is the result of the hard work of hundreds of developers with the 
> help of thousands of users. Most of them had never seen a single cent 
> for her work. And now you are going to spend money to people just to 
> tell other poeple they should use KDE? What kind of result could we 
> expect? One, two or even more percent "market penetration"? Maybe. 
> More feedback and developers? From poeple who didn't heard about KDE 
> until now? Who could this be? Are you really interested in a bunch of 
> bug reports like "my internet is not working with KDE"? Where's the 
> gain for the KDE project?

The primary goal is to attract _companies_ to use KDE as a development \
platform, and to distribute KDE with their stuff (have you seen that HP \
signed with Ximian to make Ximian Gnome standard all their next \
machine/unix/whatever it is ?). That's the kind of things we have to work \
on, getting this kind of deal with big companies, otherwise KDE will go \
nowhere (compared to its rival). Yes, I agree, it's not users we should \
target directly with the PR. But directing PR at companies is important.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
 
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