Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News)
Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News)
Posted Feb 26, 2007 18:07 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)In reply to: Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News) by aseigo
Parent article: Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News)
"" but realize that
your taking offense over something that doesn't affect you ""
??... i didnt take offense of nothing !
My point is that the *language* inside developments circles, dosent have to adress *sophistic* language requirements of the marketing world:
.- they are more or less orthogonal, meaning that the development should or must or have to have a commercial focus, but no matter what, marketing language will only be at best a generalized approach.
.- inherent openness of FOSS is what make marketing live hard, because they try to pick notions that are terrible at generalization, and often at odds with fashions, styles or ways... being promoted.
.- FOSS thrived so far being at odds with generalized perceived *ways*... so why bother?
All the best.
Posted Feb 26, 2007 18:41 UTC (Mon)
by aseigo (guest, #18394)
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i would agree in general; so when we do speak with more "market friendly"
the initial reaction to this article is a good example of why.
> inherent openness of FOSS is what make marketing live hard
to me that just means we need to re-shape "marketing" a bit, just as we
> so why bother?
because this has not worked on the desktop side of things, and for pretty
> All the best.
likewise =)
Posted Feb 26, 2007 20:04 UTC (Mon)
by mmarq (guest, #2332)
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"" ...to me that just means we need to re-shape "marketing" a bit... ...certainly a challenge, but challenges are fun. ""
agreed... but lack of control of the "bigtime promotion of general fashions, styles, looks, ways... " can turn the fun... not so fun. Remenber how recently, MS CEO tryed to connect the general FOSS paradigma with an "IP thieves" lair, in a purely marketing(FUD) manouver.
So a thick skin and caution is also required.
Posted Feb 27, 2007 5:04 UTC (Tue)
by xoddam (guest, #2322)
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> they are more or less orthogonalThird KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News)
terms at times, we need to find a way to remind the community about the
rest of our communication which is quite dry and straight forward.
have re-shaped development methodologies a bit. certainly a challenge, but
challenges are fun.
obvious reasons. while the server side of the market is indeed populated
primarily by sophisticated, tech-aware people who are used to dealing with
technical terms, complex ideas and community networking on- and off-line,
the desktop market is very, very different.
Completely on agreement.Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: 'Kludge' (KDE.News)
I'm very impressed. It seems mmarq has met his match :-)Wow! aseigo not only deciphers mmarq's posts but responds in kind!