I think that there many types of the "average joe"... Someone will ask "Why free software" and another will come up with "Why not Windows". When we are marketing about us we must promote only ourselves. But when it comes to face-to-face promotion, then I think we have to do some comparison between free and proprietary software, but always not talking for a specific company. Highlights of user software needs from more important to less important (dedicated to average joe a.k.a. Regural Windows User) are:
Usability* Stability Security Support/Community Beauty
These are what an average user looks after. Okay, some users may put Beauty on top of Stability. But from our side, as people that define a distribution all these have equal priority. I think that if we do our best in satisfying the average user, then just a quick preview will be enough to convince them. Altough I still think that Windows is a complete technological fiasco - i would better say: flawed by design. And let me finish, by writing a quote from the movie "The Matrix" :) "Morpheus: I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it." ...this is the way we (must) act. We can show them what Free/Open-Source Software is capable of. But they must choose whether or not to change the way they work and interact with their computers. Regards, George <RageCryX> Koutsikos ___________________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=gr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org