[LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 20:07 +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 13.03.2013 13:53, schrieb Louigi Verona:
> > Patrick,
> > 
> > 1. if you have other numbers, please post them, with sources.
> > 
> > 2. I cannot agree that Android can be considered to be part of Linux
> > Desktop.
> 
> Android is Googles OS with a Linux-Kernel, so is ChromeOS. And it has no
> real impact regarding issues like hardware-support because Android does
> not need to run on PC-Hardware, it does not even have a real USB-port.
> 
> So some may ask: But it is still some sort of Linux no? Does that not
> mean, that Linux in general has arrived on the markets to get its share?
> 
> It has not, nobody who speaks about Android to sell it, mentions Linux.
> 
> Because Android is a product and more than 90% of the money, that Google
> spends to develop Android as a product is for marketing. Names matter in
> marketing, more than much else. Android is the brand to be pushed on the
> market, nothing else.
> 
> Last time I checked, Canonical did the same about Ubuntu. End-user
> oriented media adapts that gratefully, they speak about Ubuntu and many
> do not even mention Linux in articles about Canonicals Distro. The money
> to promote Ubuntu is spent to promote Ubuntu, nothing else. This is, how
> marketing for end-users/consumers works.
> 
> Quality does not sell, stability does not sell, freedom does not sell at
> all -- marketing does.
> 
> Real bad quality and stability and maybe even severe lack of respect for
> the user can, in some cases, contradict marketing to some extent. But
> only, if there is an alternative, that is pushed to the market real hard
> with billions of Dollars behind it.
> 
> MacOSX is such a competitor and it comes with better quality so nobody
> is bothered too much by the fact, that it slaps the face of the user
> even harder than Microsoft. Android is another and Ubuntu is a dwarf- if
> not microscopic player in that ring.
> 
> Imagine, all the devs, that write free software *would* be payed
> decently for their good work. Sum up all the salaries and apply a
> multiplicator such as 100 and you got the figure needed to really push
> GNU/Linux on the market.

101% ACK