Posted by: dukeinlondon
on April 26, 2004 07:49 PM
Linspire only pushes the open source logic to its commercial maximum.
What mainly lacking is not applications but the advertising around it. Digikam is great for example but the project contributors can't afford an advertising campaign !
Desktop Linux distros should really do a bit of common marketing, showing off the best of what the open source world has to offer, since they are marketing it. I find distros are too lazy or timid and wait for projects to make a name for themnselves instead of helping that. The problem is that it will never replace advertising to the non linux world magasines and websites.
Suse, Mandrake, Xandros, lycoris, Libranet should do that together and on the long run, if they are so much more community spirited than Linspire.
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Posted by: dukeinlondon on April 26, 2004 07:49 PMWhat mainly lacking is not applications but the advertising around it. Digikam is great for example but the project contributors can't afford an advertising campaign !
Desktop Linux distros should really do a bit of common marketing, showing off the best of what the open source world has to offer, since they are marketing it. I find distros are too lazy or timid and wait for projects to make a name for themnselves instead of helping that. The problem is that it will never replace advertising to the non linux world magasines and websites.
Suse, Mandrake, Xandros, lycoris, Libranet should do that together and on the long run, if they are so much more community spirited than Linspire.
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