[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fair enough. It's a difficult balance between factually correct and > marketing.
Understood. Marketing is to achieve an objective, though not quite at any cost. However, the sound bites and advert bites or whatever that we find ourselves immersed in, in the various media, in our daily lives are never factually correct in the technical sense. Even if push comes to shove and promises are found clearly wanting, the marketing blurb would have had a risk assessment and a damage limitation strategy ready in the (marketing persons mind, say) strategy. A well known question is What is the worst that could happen (if things went wrong)? Would a slightly imperfect statement in a parish magazine or local newspaper cause a national outcry - no. And in the unlikely event it actually did cause an outcry. What great coverage! Priceless national debate about masses of windows viruses versus one or two lucky mavericks in linux. But I dream. It is interesting to search say on 'Linux News'. There are a surprising number of really eye catching headlines, some associated with highly controversial content. It gets coverage. The skill is to get noticed by various means without being dis-honourable. FWIW I think information is best aimed at a particular target audience, with probably differing content for different purposes. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
