Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > >> Karanbir, >> >> what about putting up something along the lines of: >> >> "Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being >> investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a >> volunteer run effort. >> > > from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that > centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the > word "difficulty." all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a > number of ways to admit that centos has no *official* support channel, > and that it would be useful to, even in admitting that, word it in > such a way to not scare away potential adopters. > > talk to someone with a marketing background. seriously. all you > need to do is admit that there's no support, but word it carefully so > that it doesn't seem like a big deal. just give people the warm > fuzzies. that's all they're looking for. > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > I disagree. Let everyone know upfront that this is run by volunteers.