On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 18:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit :
> I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two
> fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so
> popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I
> suspect that good marketing has something to do with it.
They had good marketing in the form of a billionaire publicly showering
cash around “in the public interest”. The press (especially the non-
technical press) loves this kind of story. Unfortunately, it’s not
something cheap or easy to replicate.
If anyone has a handy generous multi-millionaire up their sleeve,
please call Matt. :)
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