Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

[Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/07/2014 12:40 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 19:05:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/2/2014 11:08 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>> Here is one of my all time favourite talks from Steve Yegge (Senior
>>> Engineer at
>>> Google) at OSCON 2007 entitled "How to Ignore Marketing and Become
>>> Irrelevant in
>>> Two Easy Steps".
>>>
>>> This is sage advice:
>>>
>>> http://tvuol.uol.com.br/video/oscon--how-to-ignore-marketing--0402D0C90386/
>>>
>>
>> Yes, Steve has a way of pointing out the obvious that the rest of us
>> miss.
>
> Is there the complete video somewhere ? This one cut before the
> end, and that is very frustrating.

Ditto, however given the GTE -> Verizon anecdote and this...

On 01/07/2014 6:45 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 > * D is a brand, whether you like it or not
 > * The logo is the essence of that brand
 > * D has a history of poorly managed change
 > * D's community has been destroyed once before (Tango)
 > * D has the preception of unreliability
 > * D is not seen as a professional offering
 > * D is perceved as half finished

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