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The GNOME Journal: Marketing GNOME

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 19, 2005

[ Thanks to Claus Schwarm for this
link. ]

“Recently, Jeff Waugh proposed a goal for GNOME: 10% market
share by 2010. This has become the slogan ’10×10′; you may
have seen this lately. This proposal seems to have met with
approval by the GNOME community, judging by the reception to his
speech at GUADEC and the traffic on the gnome-marketing list, the
#gnome-hackers IRC channel, the live.gnome.org wiki and the
planet.gnome.org blog aggregation site. In this article, I
summarize some recent discussions and developments that have
occurred in these forums, and offer my thoughts on how to
proceed.

“How can we achieve the 10×10 goal…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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