Feedback on “Marketing free and open source software”
June 26th, 2006
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article that, I hope, sets out the basics of marketing in a way that is relevant to free and open source software projects.
A few people have picked up on it, including:
- Novell’s Ted Haegar, “Revell does a good job at explaining the actual meaning of marketing, as well as well as its implications in the community of open source advocates”.
- Cote, a software industry analyst at RedMonk.
- Alex Fletcher, a technology analyst at Entiva, “marketing in particular should be a subject of interest for those involved with open source projects”.
Dave Neary has been blogging about marketing Gnome, in the run-up to this year’s Guadec conference. It’s fantastic to see marketing theory and practice applied to one of the most important free software projects.
Categories: Marketing
I believe I originally got the link from Simon Phipps. He’s definitly someone to hook up with on this topic if you haven’t already. He is, of course, quite interested in the topic