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Mark Shuttleworth On Ubuntu's Lack Of Marketing
The LugRadio team writes "In the latest episode of LugRadio, the fortnightly Linux radio show, the team interview Mark Shuttleworth, head of the Ubuntu project. Mark talks about where Ubuntu is going, how (and whether) Canonical plan to make any money on the Ubuntu project, his role in the project, and (most importantly) why marketing isn't a good thing and what they're doing instead."
In my opinion, and this is in no way a troll or flame comment, Ubuntu's theme/mantra might actually turn people off to the product.
I found myself so distracted by the strange mesh of the African name, earthy color scheme, and "we are the world" esque startup screen that I immediately couldn't help but be turned off to the product.
To me, and maybe I am being incredibly anal (I dunno), computers and "tribal" go about as well together as shrimp and licorice. I simply don't like a product that--despite its sincere efforts to create unity--immediately conjures images of apartheid for me. I mean, how many Africans have the luxury of a personal computer?
Instead we have yet another product that borrows/copies/whatever the spirit of the poor and gives it to the masses, in order to eventually profit. Thanks, I'll pass.
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome