Alberto Passalacqua schreef:
2010/6/9 Oddball <monkey9@iae.nl>:
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. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball, aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org