Do you think that the lack of marketing and brand recognition could be helped if if Sun made more of an attempt to show that they helped get the OO.org foundation going? Or do you think this would hurt the fact that OO.org is a mostly community driven effort, thus giving all of the praise TO Sun instead of the community? I see it as a catch-22 either way you look at it.
I must agree.. tried to switch my girlfriend over to Ubuntu and after installing it she proceeded to load XMMS, and complain that her MP3s wouldnt work. Was too impatient to let me enable the repositories but after that small setback she really grew to like it.. The oil changing metaphor was great.. but I must say that having a car not explode on me whilst driving is more important than being able to view an annoying flash ad!
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...but private trackers will be strong as ever. We just have to move a little more underground to avoid the MAFIAA.
Or purchase software. Real geeks love open source as we never have to leave the house. Or put pants on.
Do you think that the lack of marketing and brand recognition could be helped if if Sun made more of an attempt to show that they helped get the OO.org foundation going? Or do you think this would hurt the fact that OO.org is a mostly community driven effort, thus giving all of the praise TO Sun instead of the community? I see it as a catch-22 either way you look at it.
I must agree.. tried to switch my girlfriend over to Ubuntu and after installing it she proceeded to load XMMS, and complain that her MP3s wouldnt work. Was too impatient to let me enable the repositories but after that small setback she really grew to like it.. The oil changing metaphor was great.. but I must say that having a car not explode on me whilst driving is more important than being able to view an annoying flash ad!