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Re: [PLUG] hardware - a deal I couldn't refuse
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Penguins aren't blink. fat, cute, cuddly, uncoordinated. No one is selling the MS cat and dog as stuffed animals. However, there are tons of cuddly linux stuffed penguins out there for sale. Merchandising merchandising, merchandising, is the root & soul of marketing and hype aka blink.
Brian Vagnoni
From: Art Alexion [mailto:art.alexion@verizon.net]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:35:52 -0500
Subject: Re: [PLUG] hardware - a deal I couldn't refuse
On Monday 03 December 2007 21:42:22 Mike Leone wrote:
> Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> > On Monday 03 December 2007, jeff wrote:
> >> That's ok, I've never understood people who use Vista or Compiz.
> >> I almost had a brain hemorrhage when people on the Treo list started
> >> going NUTS over `pretty' cases for the thing.
> >
> > Definitely agreed. Not only does that kind of thing tax the hardware,
> > but it tends to distract the user, and I usually find the effects to be
> > fairly garish. I don't know much about Vista, but what I've seen from
> > Compiz seems to indicate a greater concern for maximising bling instead
> > of utility or tasteful aesthetics.
>
> Wanna hear about the frightening number of users in my old company who
> think that MS's Clippie (in his guise of small animated dog or cat) is
> just "so cute", and would NOT let me turn that option off?
>
> Lotsa folks like the bling ... resource use be damned ... same reason
> people like pretty wallpaper. Me, I never see the background, but many
> folks like to minimize everything and see it. That, and seasonal
> screensavers - you know, the sort that rain snow down on your screen ...
> bling, bling, bling ....
>
So why is it surprising that someone who wants to *sell* desktop Linux would
want to spend time and money to develop bling?
Remember, this isn't being sold to server administrators.
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