Re: [MandrakeMove] First MandrakeMove review + thoughts

Guillaume Cottenceau <[email protected]> 21 Jan 2004 16:39:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.mandrake-move
Message-ID <[email protected]>
FACORAT Fabrice <[email protected]> writes:

> Le mer 21/01/2004 =E0 15:15, Guillaume Cottenceau a =E9crit :
> > FACORAT Fabrice <[email protected]> writes:
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> > > OSNews has a review of MandrakeMove ( club USB key version ).
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> > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3D5709
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> > > There are some good points in this review :
> > > 	- no list of compatibles/incompatibles/tested USB keys.
> > > MandrakeMove should have it's own page and on this page you should =
be
> > > able to find some informations like documentation, errata, hardware
> > > compatibility, tips.
> > > this page is only for advertising :
> > > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove
> > > Nothing interesting inside ( nice pdf btw )
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> > :(
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> > I have asked our staff to write a list, long ago. I thought they
> > accepted. Recently, I asked an update of the status, they argued
> > the list was actually not a good idea. So they'll be none, I
> > guess.
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> ok, so If you staff is willing to have communication and marketing
> lessons, I'm willing to pay for that !
> Don't they realize that if someone use the club key version ( so a club
> member ) or buy it but want to use it's own USB key and that the system
> just panic or trash the USB key, the man will be so angry that it will
> never buy another mdk product ?
> you will earn money one time, but not several times.
> On top of that how about the bad publicity/advertisement ?
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> When you know that X is supposed to work and Y not ( and may trash you
> system ), if you keep using Y then it's your fault and you can only
> complain about yourself. If you don't know what will work, what will no=
t
> work and which problems you may encounter, if something goes wrong, you
> just blame the product and thus the company.

Regis, if you want to express your reasons for not publishing the
suggested page about USB keys, I think this is the right time :).

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/