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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:39:44 +0000 David Bell <grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anyone make a guess as to why the big players in GNU/Linux/OSS, especially > Cononical and Sun don't advertise widely, if at all. Is it only the geeks > who want to topple MS off its pedestal? 1. Money - who do you think pays for the wages of all those footballers and Hollywood-has-beens? Ads are incredibly expensive, especially for a prime-time blitz on lots of channels / media. M$ have plenty, let them spend it. 2. Lack of preinstalled boxes for sale in mass market outlets. Lack of free software for webcams, wireless cards and other bespoke gadgets ... but then all those "unique-selling-points" are just pointless marketing. Needs a change of attitude from the manufacturers. 3. Canonical, Sun, HP, RedHat and others do push their names during exhibitions and conference and stuff. More hardware manufacturers need to publish their source code, not just make proprietary binaries for the Linux kernel. That way, we all get stable, free, code for all devices instead of a proprietary mess where the same device name has a different chipset in February to March and the same chipset appears under a random assortment of names. Most of the work needs to be within the scope of the hardware manufacturers and the hardware packagers - *not* the retailers or the ad agencies. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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