Marketing
Posted Dec 3, 2003 11:38 UTC (Wed) by
XERC (guest, #14626)
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Marketing by frazier
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A UserLinux manifesto
I know from experience it is much easier to propose use of a free software project to management if they have already heard of it.
I wish that the same could be true for the management of closed, proprietary, software vendors, but the prerequisite to that is, that the CLIENTS of the
closed software vendors UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FREE SOFTWARE AND CLOSED SOFTWARE and that the clients also understand, that THEY DO HAVE TO PAY FOR THE DEVEOPMENT and some little extra, to keep the development going in general. Hmm, and who are the "clients"? MANAGEMENT, BUSSINESS(WO)MEN, who don't understand the meaning of their dicisions from technological and other points of view OUTSIDE THE MONAY DIMENSION. Just like every nation has a government that the nation deserves, every nation also has the software that the nation deserves----closed, technologically stuck and slowly improving, PATENTED "business secret".
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