Re: Advertisement for gnustep

[Nicola Pero]

On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:21, Adam Fedor wrote:
>> RMS has offered to put something on the gnu.org home page about
>> GNUstep.  Any ideas what we should say or ask for? I had mentioned that
>> we are trying to organize a desktop.
>
> Honestly, I'd ask him to save the offer for maybe another few years.
> Advertising for something that doesn't exist and has a strong chance of not
> existing is stupid, and will only sour relations with potential users.

That is a good point ... maybe we should advertise about the part that
definitely exists then ... that is, the core non-gui libraries. ;-)

Those are not a desktop, but to write non-graphical server programs
they're the best GNU stuff available! :-D

We should also mention the gui stuff, but as you say "the desktop"
probably shouldn't be the main focus ... end users coming for the desktop
might be upset to find something that's not ready to compete with GNOME or
KDE (Gorm might impress them though) :-)

Can we advertise ObjC + GNUstep as a 'truly free' replacement for Java ?
That would be fun. ;-)

Anyway, I don't think we should miss opportunities to advertise. 
Advertisement should be effective/attractive, but also honest, ie, we
should advertise only for stuff that we have and that we think is ready
for the masses. :-)

We have enough stuff ready for the masses to put together some
advertisement though! :-)

Thanks