Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:55:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <7727176F15A5.AAA3312@po02.wxs.nl>
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>At 12:51 PM 5/5/99 -0500, Mike Avery wrote: >>As a FreeBSD newbie, I probably should look more before speaking, >>but advocacy and development require different skills. That isn't to >>say one person can't have both, but most often they don't. It seems >>that there should be a separate group handling publicity, evangalism, >>advocacy, and so on. And the group should be more open than the >>existing structure seems to be. > >Absolutely. And since marketing needs HOURS (communicating with humans >is MUCH more time-consuming than coding), there also needs to be a >financial incentive, at least for the primary marketers. I do not doubt that marketing costs time, but to put off coders like that is being as worse as people putting down PR activity... Coding take less time? Heh, I wonder if Matthew Dillon, Peter Wemm, Doug Rabson, David O'Brien and the likes all think that's correct... Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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