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Subject:    RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org and Firefox on a Linspire CD-ROM for $29.95
From:       Sigmascape1 () cs ! com
Date:       2004-12-02 12:19:51
Message-ID: 3AE1405B.0CDC05E0.3F8EDD3A () cs ! com
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Bruce,

It would be an ordeal. Organization, time and effort would be needed. In reality, \
there are no limits to the possibilities of such an effort, but would only be as \
effective as the people involved want it to be.

Its my opinion that oss in general is doing a fine job in making itself known to the \
business world. Businesses, large and small, are being made aware of the benefits of \
oss by various sources, including a growing band of IT consultants who see oss as a \
way to make money using oss in their business efforts. Over the past couple of years, \
I've been interested in getting non-businesses interested in oss, and in particular, \
OpenOffice and GIMP. These two apps are obviously ready for prime time, and there is \
no reason at all that the average consumer could not make use of them. The trick is \
getting exposure to those 'average' consumers who have made companies like Microsoft \
an enormous fortune. Linspire, love them, hate them, have no real opinion, whatever \
of them, is trying to expose oss to the masses. Linspire's Robertson said, and I \
totally agree with him, get the consumer to use oss on their Windows box, and moving \
them to Linux is a lot easier.

I am rambling on, but it is because I have strong feelings on this subject. My line \
of thinking is that if I can turn someone like my girlfriend on to using \
OpenOffice.org, Microsoft is in serious trouble... maybe not today, or tomorrow, but \
trouble is coming.

MLF

www.sigmascape.com


Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@axionet.com> wrote:

> Sigmascape1@cs.com <Sigmascape1@cs.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have felt for a long time that some sort of grassroots, 
> guerilla-type >CD marketing effort could help make an impact on consumers.
> 
> I've always thought that this was the sort of marketing that open source 
> did. But it could be followed up more aggressively, and more targetted - 
> no question.
> 
> > Basically, my thought is to develop an OOo CD (committee decides 
> > additional apps to place on the CD), and work out local deals with 
> > bookstores to place some sort of display inside the store,
> 
> I don't see anything wrong with the effort - I just wanted to make sure 
> that people understand what an undertaking this sort of thing can be.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce Byfield
> http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield
> 
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