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begin mistakes, sorry, corrected. |
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:59:59 +0300 |
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From: Mikko Moilanen <mikko.moilanen@×××××××××××××.fi> |
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To: "Kevyn Shortell" <kevyn@×××.com> |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo |
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:37:28 -0700 |
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"Kevyn Shortell" <kevyn@×××.com> wrote: |
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> done just as much work, to make this distro what it is. Look at it from |
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> a marketing perspective. It's suicide to take a marketable name, and |
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> ruin it by adding GNU in front of it. Brand names are marketable because |
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> they are unique. They are memorable, they have a image associated with |
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> it. GNU/Linux, Just frankly is the worst marketing plan I've ever heard of. |
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Oh, I hope that Gentoo will never be so commercial that it will affect in development or naming. !Huh indeed. |
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> You could sell hair dryers to 60 year old bald men easier than trying to |
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> market ANYTHING called GNU/Gentoo Linux. In regards to Debian |
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> using the GNU tag... Debian was probably hoping to get more publicity |
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> from it, as they were in danger of well, ending up where they are... |
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Is this marketing some kind of objective in Gentoo? Should't it be developing an Operating System. |
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> I'd rather quit developing, than bow in to political pressure from RMS |
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Well, you could then leave this political discussion to me for example. I am very delighteful to see that in Gentoo there is also people which got some passion to these kind of things :D |
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Mikko |
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Mikko |
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