On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:07:25PM +0930, Ron wrote: > Hmm.. I'd have said full time QA staff. If we are gonna have hired > guns, let em blast at the bugs, then we *all* get value for our > money...
Yeah, it's probably more worth it to have hired people do the 'boring' stuff that people are less likely to volunteer for. Marketing should be left to anyone who could actually make some money from it... > ..and the PR stuff almost looks after itself if every user is a > happy user;-) Not really, but for our purposes, that is good enough. For a big company, they need to get their name stamped in your brain, so that when you go to the store to buy a foobar, you buy *their* foobar. You would be really surprised how many people have never even heard of Debian. Unfortunately, the populace at large is not perfectly informed about everything. This is where marketing comes in - yes, it's not a nice situation in some ways, but neither are a lot of other realities. Because they don't have all the information, you need to do your best to supply it to them, and to put a good spin on the information (although if you outry lie, it will probably have negative consequences in the long term..). Ciao, -- David N. Welton < Sors immanis - et inanis - rota tu volubilis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > status malus - vana salus - semper dissolubilis, http://www.efn.org/~davidw < obumbrata - et velata - michi quoque niteris; debian.org + prosa.it > nunc per ludum - dorsum nudum - fero tui sceleris.
