[Desktop_architects] Desktop Linux marketing slogans

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 18 January 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> All those brands you mention already have excellent
> products which are immediately familiar to all
> consumers.  

you're mixing up cause and effect here. you don't get good branding from a 
well known product, you get a well known product in (large) part due to good 
branding.

> Linux should not do such advertizing 
> until it similarly has concrete, excellent products
> that everyone knows about.  

heh. don't market things until people know about it? well, at that point you 
don't need to do marketing since you've achieved it's end goals without doing 
any. ;)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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