what do you mean PD needs a "marketing strategy"? what's wrong with the PD user base growing at the speed it already is? do you know what a "market" is? what is this "market" you speak of. it's free man, no not "free market", _really free_ there is no hype, no alpha, and nothing to sell..
julian
On 12 Feb 2003 15:35:43 -0500 Marc Lavallée odradek@videotron.ca wrote:
//Le mer 12/02/2003 à 15:23, Yves Degoyon a écrit : // //> i can't see why you'd want to install PD for these people, //> maybe you should make clickable standalones ??? //> ( we can with pd as is really ) // //That's an idea. Painful but very useful. // //> i also meant : the programmers often think users //> are dumb and can't manage to compile a program, //> that's what's it's all about, i think they should learn, //> otherwise, they'll be addicted to big gurus out there. // //And I meant: the users like to think they are dumb. The only thing we //can do is to confort them in their belief and slowly make them realize //they're not so dumb after all. PD needs a marketing strategy, something //like "Think <whatever>". What about a clickable installer, integration //of many externals, good documentation and tutorials? Thats's what users //are expecting, nothing less. No need for big gurus for this to happen. // //-- //Marc // //_______________________________________________ //PD-list mailing list //PD-list@iem.kug.ac.at //http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list // //