Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:01:54 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990505165841.04496830@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199905051810.NAA25028@hostigos.otherwhen.com> References: <4.2.0.37.19990505102722.00c748f0@localhost> <19990505081901.B24172@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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At 12:51 PM 5/5/99 -0500, Mike Avery wrote: >As I get older, I realize that marketing creates demand. Whether we >like it or not. And that someone will create demand for a class of >product. If you don't create demand for your product, your >competitor will create demand for theirs. Marketing is as essential >as having a product. And it ain't easy. In fact, in it's own way it's >as hard as creating a product. Actually, marketing *is* creating a product. Without marketing, it's just a program, not a product. >I don't think that if someone were to criticize FreeBSD technically >people would seriously tell them to "write your own OS". It's not >easy. And we know FreeBSD wasn't the product of one person in >their basement. Similarly, advocacy isn't a one person job. Very true. >As a FreeBSD newbie, I probably should look more before speaking, >but advocacy and development require different skills. That isn't to >say one person can't have both, but most often they don't. It seems >that there should be a separate group handling publicity, evangalism, >advocacy, and so on. And the group should be more open than the >existing structure seems to be. Absolutely. And since marketing needs HOURS (communicating with humans is MUCH more time-consuming than coding), there also needs to be a financial incentive, at least for the primary marketers. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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