<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Sven,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 07.11.2019 um 16:11 schrieb Sven Dyroff <<a href="mailto:S.Dyroff@phytec.de" class="">S.Dyroff@phytec.de</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">Hello,</font>
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<br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">this here just came over the Sourceforge
newsletter:</font>
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<br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class=""> </font><a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/11/03/2012226/does-linux-have-a-marketing-problem" class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/11/03/2012226/does-linux-have-a-marketing-problem</font></a>
<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My view is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* people don't buy an OS: they buy a machine that helps them to solve problems and stay in connection. They also buy application software. And they want that their next computer can use the existing application software and documents. This keeps people locked in an ecosystem. They break out only if the operator of the eco system fails to serve them. Or if a different eco system reduces the barrier to switch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Linux Desktop Distros suffer from the "my fork is better than yours" syndrom. IMHO, there are more forks than users :) This is also addressed in the newsletter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it is IMHO not a marketing problem (which assumes the benefits of Linux are not well enough explained), but a structural and a cultural problem. This can't be solved by Marketing IMHO.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">Might be interesting to draw conclusions
for Linux based phones in a straight line...</font>
<br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Well, yes. 90% of all phones are already Linux based :) If you read "Linux" as "Kernel". So it is a full success in the Android eco system. And as said above, almost nobody knows and cares about, as long as the ecosystem is kept running.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This also made our Letux work go into a niche. A niche where you can play around, where you are the owner of your device and not dependent on someone keeping the ecosystem running. The latter is a great thing but also our achilles heel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BR,</div><div class="">Nikolaus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>