Marketing isn't necessarily a "bad" thing. Marketing is simply the art of "massaging the demand" in the marketplace. Microshaft has created a "demand" for their louzy OS and Microshaft makes money. The product is only one piece of the puzzle. If people are not "demanding" the product, then the "best" product could fall on its nose. For my graduate Marketing class, I chose to market Linux. I'm convinced that Linux is a great product, but we now need to create a demand for this wonderful product! Just my $.02, Matt
From: Michael Hasenstein
To: maqish CC: SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] suse only great as workstation not as server?? Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:03:40 +0100 (MET) {snip} than anyone else. Plus, we've got the developers to keep doing that, this is where we spent our money, instead of marketing. Of our 360 people most are developers, most of them important figures in the open source scene.
-- Michael Hasenstein http://www.suse.de/~mha/ Private Pilot (ASEL+aerobatics) since 1998
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