Re: GNOME files disabled

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi, 

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:38:34 -0500
"Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org> wrote:

> Hi Stormy
>
> On 9/4/08, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > Does somebody on the list have the right access to do this? And the
> > time to do this?
>
> I just did[0], I disabled /softwaremap/ and commented the reference to
> Get More Software in /community/.

Thanks a lot!

[snip]
> In other light of this same topic, shall we worry about the absence of
> a site like gnomefiles.org?

> From a marketing point of view: Yes.

A site such gnomefiles is pull marketing [1] for the GNOME development
platform, and also supports the desktop due to network effects [2].

It's just not as efficient as for other platforms because releases are
rather boring if they cannot be installed easily and immediately. That
was the central problem of gnomefiles.


Cheers,
Claus

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-Pull_strategy
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects