[scribus] off list Re: ! ;-)

[joseph harris]

From: "John Beardmore"
> joseph harris wrote:
>> From: "John Beardmore"
>
>>>> And that I would not contest. But you were asking why so few 
>>>> took up Scribus in the first place; the answer has to do 
>>>> with marketing.
>>>
>>> OK, but there are some people that use OSS without marketing.
>>
>> Hmm. Without formal marketing maybe. But far and away the best 
>> marketing is word of mouth, and other personal recommendation.
>
> OK, but this isn't marketing in the sense of glossy boxes 
> pushed under the noses of the naive public, or indeed 
> preloading it onto the machines they buy.
>
>
> Cheers, J/.

No indeed. But that is just the technique that works at the 
moment, the essence of marketing is getting interest and take up 
of something. Marketing is not just to the final buyer or 
recipient either.

Joseph Harris