On 17 June 2010 17:45, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do have a problem with painting other community distributions as > competition. Yes, we all care about usage etc, but I would never (and have > never) called it competition. > > Competition leads to market share discussions, which in case of freely > available community distributions is simply the wrong language to use. > > IMHO distributions don't "compete" in the typical market sense. It is more a > way of differentiation, focus and target audience. > > Once we compete, we will try to transport the notion of differentiation > which will not serve the goal of upstream focusing. > > This is why I personally do not like the Novell OOo edition - it is > perceived as a fork, which hurts all. > > I would prefer if we stop using the term competition. > > Yes, I know this could become a flamewar. I just wanted to point out one of > the core differences between commercial marketing and community marketing. > Let's not mix them too much. > > As always, I might be wrong. > > Jan We practice Open Marketing[1]. We are positive and instead of battling our fellow distributions we strive to serve our target audience well. [1] - http://opensource.com/business/10/5/open-marketing-what-does-it-really-mean -- Luke Slater :O) -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
