On 12/18/06, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:01:59 -0800 > Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How do you sell that to a corporation? How do you market that? The > > > > people in business suits are going to chose a program named Photoshop > > > > over Gimp 11 times out of 10. > > > > ...and MS makes a good browser. > > > > Friend of mine was over on the weekend - I was doing some jpg work..and > he > asked what software I was using - when I told him it's called the Gimp, he > fell > over laughing. His comment "what is it about Linux geeks that they pick these > weird names" - even when I explained its origin it didn't help - He added > "Ask a > car maker (like Ford) whether model names (like Edsel) are important". > And this stuff like "GNU is not Unix" drives me crazy. > >
Frank, you have a valid point when you're trying to sell a product. But open source has a tendency to go against the grain in this dept. -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume: http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.html Currently available for contract work blog: http://www.chovy.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
