On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Aurélien Leblond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blablack@gmail.com">blablack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The company I work for produce software (a very VERY big company), and<br>
they have a whole department for branding.<br>
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I know it is "sad", and as a developer, I feel that "if it is a good<br>
software, they will come"...<br>
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But...not so...<br></blockquote><div><br>I'll easily belive that a big company has a whole department for branding. But I think this is a little out of the context of what I initially said. <br><br>I'm a single developer, working on my hobby project because I enjoy it and like to use it. Would I like it if more pople used it? Yeah sure. Am I going to go overboard rebranding my software to seem like the commercial / proprietary alternatives, and try and attract attention to my project in this way? I won't. <br>
<br>On the other hand, would I use the #linuxaudio tag to publicize a release / update? Yes. I have no problem with *publicizing* information, and perhaps even purposefully targeting it at a certain audience (whether they be beginners or veterans), as this doesn't affect the information itself. But changing the information that is being spread around *for the purpose of promotion* is not something I think is a good idea.<br>
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May be rebranding is the wrong idea though.<br></blockquote><div><br>I think so :)<br>-Harry<br></div></div>