Re: *** next draft - press release ***
Robert Kiesling (kiesling@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 99 06:52 EST
> Lets leave writing press releases up to the distribution maintainers. People
> can be divided in simple subcatagories, and the people who like to see a
> commercial-type press release promoting the new kernel are (probably, excuse
> my generalization) not likely to download it until it's an rpm or .deb with
> complete installation instructions. Let those organizations write their own
> press releases, they (or at least a number of them :) make them regularly,
> know their public, and more specifically, know what has changed for their
> usergroup. They can more properly decide wether to mention improved
> sparc64/axp 64-bit performance or not, wether to mention SMP or not, etc.
Hear, hear. (Na, Na, Hey, Hey.) This discussion is consuming too
much energy for my taste.
If any of the programmers have any trouble wrt/their "public,"
IMhO, they should be in the marketing business, not the kernel
business.
--
Robert Kiesling
kiesling@ix.netcom.com
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