Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Alberto Passalacqua schreef:
> 2010/6/9 Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>:
>   
> > That i understand.
> > It would be quite possible that this would change.
> > The effort of becoming independant is highly appreciated, that costs are
> > higher is logical.
> > Merchandise kan bring money, when distributede the right way: Go to the
> > people and confront them at fairs etc. Volunteers come in handy here.
> > If the distro is the best on the market, and accessible for most people, it
> > will become popular again when the dust has settled.
> >     
>
> You talk as if openSUSE wasn't popular ;-)
>
> However, being the best distribution does not change anything. SuSE
> was the best distribution for a long time, it offered (and still does)
> ease of use and integration that the leading distribution (Red Hat,
> Canonical) do not offer (very far from that), but it did not work.
>
> Having a good product is one part of the game, distributing it is
> another part, but they're not enough. As Canonical teaches, a good
> marketing campaign can do better than product quality, unfortunately.
>
> Best,
> A.
>   
Yes indeed, that is obvious, you need to calculate marketing into your
strategies, that is enevetable..
If the product is realy good, which it was for a long time, more and
more people will start using it, but only after is clear that oS is
independant in that way, that another company cannot sell parts of it to
the competition... i realy hate it to say this all over, but *that* is
the real cause for the situation oS is in now.

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Enjoy your time around,


Oddball, aka M9.


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