On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:18 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/19/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If we're marketing, we start with, okay, there's this set of people who make > > up a definable demographic of some sort (geographic, or an industry or > > application, or various other ways to slice it) and say "Okay, what can we > > do to make Fedora appeal to the people that make up this market?" That might > > involve promotion in a "language" that speaks to whoever the target is -- > > and it also includes things like "if we want to appeal to market XYZ, we > > should make sure Fedora addessess function ABC." > > The market for fedora... are people in the community who want to be > more than users.. people who want to contribute. I disagree. And I think more people feel like contributing to successful products - ie, ones with lots of users. Most contributors got into Linux as users. Mike
