Re: [fc] Re: Proposal

[Tom Hull <thull@sco.com>]

Here's a slightly oblique suggestion -- not necessarily what this group
should be doing, but something that would be interesting to see someone
do:

Aim at anti-Linux marketeers. Put together a kit which details an
entire set of optional marketing arguments for positioning Product X
against Linux. Each kit would be a laundry list of all types of more
or less plausible (assuming widespread ignorance of Linux) arguments
to advance Product X over Linux. Make the list as good as possible,
including Product X's greatest technical strengths, as well as the
specific strenghts of Vendor X's sales, support, financial, etc.,
organizations.

Then counter those arguments.

Then challenge the anti-Linux marketeers to qualify their actual
marketing materials against your counterarguments, before they
embarrass themselves in public.

Augment the list in case the actual marketeers come up with anything
you didn't anticipate. Periodically weed out arguments that nobody
believes.

Charlie Stross wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 12:54:45PM +0200, Zak McGregor wrote:
> >
> > Apologies if this has been asked before, but are we planning on tackling
> > not only the FUD yet to be released, or previous FUD as well?
> 
> Here's a second question (same apologies apply): who are we aiming the
> FUD debunking at? Linux users? Journalists? Or the great unwashed hordes
> who have never heard of Linux? Each and every one of those groups has a
> different reaction to FUD, and to debunking.
> 
> -- Charlie Stross

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