“Unfortunately, the fundamentalist FOSS mentality we encountered on Reddit is still alive and well.” Ok, so this “fundamentalist” attitute, according to the article, is from comments like “This is going to be a very hard sell being a proprietary closed source system to Linux users, many use Linux because they have bought into the idea of open source. Good luck with it anyway”. I understand that this article is just a closed-source product promo (whose claim to fame is interoperating with… another closed-source product), but name-calling folks (probably like myself) who use open source “fundamentalists” is wrong, especially when they give feedback as quoted.
Then we have, “we don’t store or process data online — strictly between you and your mail server”, but, “users can turn off what little data collection we do”. Um… pick one.
Overall, the story seems quite positive: despite not easily finding a sympathetic audience for their marketing, their Linux product has paid for itself just through word-of-mouth recommendations. Some more marketing work could help it go even further.
“Unfortunately, the fundamentalist FOSS mentality we encountered on Reddit is still alive and well.” Ok, so this “fundamentalist” attitute, according to the article, is from comments like “This is going to be a very hard sell being a proprietary closed source system to Linux users, many use Linux because they have bought into the idea of open source. Good luck with it anyway”. I understand that this article is just a closed-source product promo (whose claim to fame is interoperating with… another closed-source product), but name-calling folks (probably like myself) who use open source “fundamentalists” is wrong, especially when they give feedback as quoted.
Then we have, “we don’t store or process data online — strictly between you and your mail server”, but, “users can turn off what little data collection we do”. Um… pick one.
i guess they meant “unfortunately for us proprietary software programmers who want to exploit users.”
Overall, the story seems quite positive: despite not easily finding a sympathetic audience for their marketing, their Linux product has paid for itself just through word-of-mouth recommendations. Some more marketing work could help it go even further.