Comments on: Day 9 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests

By: Seaumas

Seaumas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:48 +0000

Windows 7 is so full of things wrong with it that its nasty. Surely its being pushed like stomped on crack, and its not the worst Windows OS I’ve ever seen (remember Me? or Vista?) I’m still using XP Pro and quite a few of us are. If windows 7 isn’t an advertisement for buying a Mac I don’t know what it. I’m a stone Ubuntu maniac, but in some ways its got a little to do to meet the cleanliness and completeness of an Apple computer. Perhaps Ubuntu 10.04 will go a long way towards that goal. And, for goodness sake, who says you have to put our a new version every 6 mos?

By: Seaumas

Seaumas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:35:21 +0000

O Boy. I heard that one before. It came from IBM and its why they refused to release a desktop. Similarly, when desktops did come out, they would not budge from their clunky “mainframe on a desktop” AT (5150). And everyone seemed to have the IBM mentality until Compaq and Radio Shack Shack walked in the door. Shuttlesworth is full blown from the brow of the gods, but I happen to remember some mighty smart guys from the 1960s and ’70s and they were wrong. So wrong their companies folded like crushed oragami art. Linux does not have to build a desktop. It can work with another company to build that kludge according to spec and I bet it will work better than all the rest. HP, Dell, Hitachi, Apple and Sun won’t be around forever in their present forms. This world used to be full of the type of visionaries that would let folks tell them they could not do something. Today, unfortunately, we have a world society that waits for someone else to do it, or complains that someone has not or cannot. That’s why I’m looking at a little red laptop with a Linux keyboard that will be running Ubuntu 25 (with continual fix and update on an hourly basis). Price?
What’s in yer pocket, Laddie?

By: markpeak

markpeak — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:01:20 +0000

I think the best example of FOSS marketing is Firefox. They have professional marketing team and also community project like SpreadFirefox.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:11:29 +0000

See the brainstorm I posted last year and you realise just how far Canonical needs to come to market Ubuntu effectively.

Basically there is no corporate culture at Canonical to market their products with any sense of professionalism, hence the blury photography mentioned in the brainstorm.

It takes years to change a corporate culture so it will be a while yet before they come across as professional as Windows or Apple.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10980/

By: sander

sander — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:03:51 +0000

Marketing is not the same as promotion. In your article, you are talking about promotion whilst using the incorrect term marketing..

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:49:51 +0000

Windows 7 comes out next month. Where are the radio and press ads, saying “Congratulations Microsoft, for finally offering some of the features we’ve had for years”?

When IBM entered the personal computer market, Apple ran a similar sort of ad because Apple had already been in the personal computer market for years, and IBM had once derided personal computers as being insignificant.

It’s a sadly wasted opportunity, assuming that something like this is not already in the works.