[86915] in Cypherpunks
Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Mon Sep 22 02:47:39 1997
To: lizard@dnai.com (Lizard)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:04:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970915104030.00b06e90@dnai.com> from "Lizard" at Sep 15, 97 10:40:30 am
Reply-To: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
> At 10:09 AM 9/15/97 -0700, sameer wrote:
> >> Writing the code is no longer enough. The code must be usable by the
> >> sheeple to work. How do we do that?
> > Sell code.
> Marketing.
>
> It's not enough to have a great product -- you must also have great
Or, more correctly, you don't have to have a great product, it
just has to _seem_ easy to use (Win95)--and you must also have great
> marketing. In the case of memewar, you need to get people to want to use
> something, enough to change their habits, even slightly. The less they need
> to change, relative to the benefit they get, the better.
