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On Saturday 19 January 2008 22:03, Neil Williams wrote: > 1. Money - who do you think pays for the wages of all those > footballers and Hollywood-has-beens? Ads are incredibly expensive, > especially for a prime-time blitz on lots of channels / media. M$ have > plenty, let them spend it. I don't see the relevance of footballers and hollywood-has-beens. I'm sure that costs could be kept down by avoiding advertising agencies. Why use television and subsidise all the hangers-on connected with it? There are ways of advertising on the web and printed matter which wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Canonical must spend a small fortune distributing disks world wide, why not advertise the fact in the daily/weekly press or whatever? > 2. .... Needs a change of attitude from the manufacturers. Manufactures won't change unless they see that there really is a market out there. I notice that including drivers for Mac seems to be on the increase. > 3. Canonical, Sun, HP, RedHat and others do push their names during > exhibitions and conference and stuff. Preaching mostly to the converted :) > More hardware manufacturers need to publish their source code, not just > make proprietary binaries for the Linux kernel. That way, we all get > stable, free, code for all devices instead of a proprietary mess where > the same device name has a different chipset in February to March and > the same chipset appears under a random assortment of names. A hurdle to overcome by increased usage of OSS. > Most of the work needs to be within the scope of the hardware > manufacturers and the hardware packagers - *not* the retailers or the > ad agencies. To hell with "ad Agencies". Retailers will push what they can sell. Advertising, making the public aware, in what ever manner is practical and effective, will create a (hopefully growing) demand. Even your local shop can afford to advertise. -- W. Devon ----------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html