- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:54:33 +0100
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
A lot of sense in Orion's closing paras : > When I work in Linux, which I have from time to time, I don't trust > anything. I have no idea about the quality of the software that I just > downloaded. Why? Because of the two forms of communications that form > trust, Linux hasn't accomplished either one. > > Linux doesn't really advertise and Linux's word-of-mouth campaign is > limited to locations that only Linux people go to. > > Your word-of-mouth is why people you know are converting. They trust > you; trust is transitive that way. However, that isn't mainstream by > any stretch of the imagination. > > Fix the trust issue (by branding and word-of-mouth) and open source > might have a shot. Philip Taylor
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