Re: Marketing (Was: Re: New developers and publicity)

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:22:08 -0600, Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:

> What I'm more afraid of is that people will be interested in this, but
> nothing will get done.  That's happened more than once in the past.
> 
> So feel free to start this. I certainly hope we can accomplish
> something.

In my opinion. I think marketting GNUstep is a waste because it is not a desktop
environment. End-users make a system self-sustainable since technically they
paid (in a way) developers to live. It's better to put marketting
effort into a desktop
environment, eg. backbone and etoile. However, it would be better (in a view)
for the desktop environments to share openness with end users as much
as possible.

Now for the DE goal if people agree with the above idea.

In short term, I think it is a good idea to have a desktop environment project
under GNU's umbrella. It is a quick way to have people to agree on something.
And I'm expecting Adam to start this (if he can agree with the idea)
to reduce any
possible social conflict.

In long term, the GNU brand and politics could defer the project. In that case
some people can start doing something like GNOME did if they think GNU's
political view isn't as important.

There will be no further opinion from me on this subject because I'm busy
building my own DE which is focusing DTP and I would like to dictate it. ;)