Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

On 7/25/06, Claus Schwarm <c.schwarm@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've never really understood why so many people seem to listen to Doc
> Searls. Maybe, that's because he tells geeks what they would like to
> hear?


yes, exactly.  we geeks love to hear these optimistic things about
supposed geeky "revolutions"... just as we like to ignore obvious
facts like most of the population not having internet access, most of
internet traffic going to the same "old" mass media conglomerates,
most of "new" media (blogs etc) not having 1/100 of the "old" media's
audience, and most of the biggest companies not giving a damn about
this "revolution", but still selling / profiting like crazy (using
this "old" marketing that supposedly doesn't work anymore)...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/01/1433206

no matter how hard we geeks like to pretend "old" communication and
marketing (the ones we don't like, the ones most of us don't
understand) are dead, they're still alive and kicking (and healthy!).
last time i checked, uncool non-bloggy microsoft was selling much more
than your cool distro of choice.


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Santiago Roza
Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina
Departamento I+D - Thymbra
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