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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league...
From:       blackfarm <blackfarm () mountain ! net>
Date:       2001-06-09 22:55:29
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On Saturday 09 June 2001 09:27, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:39:49PM -0400, blackfarm wrote:
> > The truth is sometimes the same story is on the dot all week long. If
> > we're lucky we might see two stories. So i think everyone knows that
> > there is no shortage of space for application announcements. I think \
> > its obvious that theres a sort of hacker elitist prejudice against \
> > commercial ventures. This stuberness against commercial software is \
> > hurting KDE.
> 
> This is basically the Freshmeat/Slashdot argument. Apps.kde.com is for
> application releases. And I bet all apps of The Kompany are announced
> there.
> 
> The Dot is for news and KDE promotion, not necessarily KDE application
> promotion. It's not biased against commercial applications per se, it's
> biased against applications not part of KDE. And of course it is!
> 
> The Kompany has their own resources and methods for promotion and
> marketing. Perhaps (small, decent) advertisement banners for their \
> products would work on The Dot. If The Kompany releases a new KDE \
> product, that might be news. But every release? If Opera were to add KDE \
> add-ons, that would be news the first time. Every subsequent release \
> would be marketing. 
> I very much agree that KDE should be a cooperation between community and
> commercial parties, but turning The Dot into a marketing channel instead \
> of a news site would not be the way to do so.
> 
> Rob


Why is it always the extreme? No ones advocating turning the dot into apps. \
 But major open and commercial releases should be ran on the dot. The \
addition  of imap was a big improvement for kde so the story should have \
ran. Thats my  issue with that matter. I think it would be a good thing to \
hilite quality  application releases on the dot. After all a desktop is \
worthless without  good applications right? Hi lighting the better quality \
application releases  will only attract positive attention. Application \
announcements on apps don't  run on linux today to they. So we need to \
attract attention to the good  applications that kde has to offer. Look at \
all the PR that kde got when the  kgesture story ran on the dot. Thats the \
kind of thing I'd like to see more  often.

Craig
 
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