[Typo3] Some feedback to TYPO3 marketeers

JoH info at cybercraft.de
Mon Oct 17 01:55:05 CEST 2005


> An acquintance of mine is happilly using his prayer rug right next to
> his desk when he feels like it. If you need a special place why the
> company has to provide you with it? Besides, you are forgetting that a
> lot of companies now are "built on Christian beliefs" and morning
> prayer is part of the routine. All in all, I think your knowledge of
> how things are in U.S. is based on European newspapers rather than on
> personal experience.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but in fact I got my "knowledge" of how things
are in the US by the "occasional Dimitri" - but I think it must have been
the 2004 version who wrote in september:

> 2. I am not offended by them. I would probably haven't bothered with
> replacing them if Kasper used some Renaissance paintings or old icons.
> But there are people who prefer to be offended while they are not. I
> dislike them as much as the ones knocking on my door early Saturday
> morning to inquire if I had already found Jesus. Consider this -
> would I feel safe using TYPO3 for a govenment web project and
> knowingly put my client in danger of being sued by some ACLU zealot
> or a fired employee over something like this?
>
> It may sound fantastic to you, but one of my clients was sued by an
> employee whose email address got published on the website and who had
> to sort through porn spam that she received as a result. We were
> lucky to
> be spared as a co-defendant. You may laugh at the way things are in
> U.S. all you want, but to get any corporate market here we have to
> play the game.

So what is the truth now? - Are you free to practice your religion however
you like or do you have to fear legal actions taken against you if you do
so?
And if a lot of companies are "built on christian beliefs" and "morning
prayer is a routine", why don't you stop complaining and simply move your
efforts into selling TYPO3 services to them instead of "risking" to offend
other companies with some jesus pictures in the install tool? Maybe for
these companies this is a marketing criteria and it might help you in the
decision process if they come to know that this piece of software got the
same religious roots as their own business.
BTW: If "christian propaganda" is such a big problem in the US (which I
simply can't believe if I take a look at your president and his "mission
from god") how do these companies survive?

And a last question: If you believe that rejecting people, behaviours or
products out of religious reasons is "unprofessional" why would you want to
do business with clients, that refuse to work with the best tool just
because it uses the "wrong pictures"?
I would prefer to work with professional clients ...

And even though I might be repeating myself I have to quote the same german
funpunk band again:

It's not your fault that the world is like it is.
It's just your fault if it remains like that.

Joey

PS: Just to prevent you from shooting too fast - I was born and baptized as
a Catholic but nowadays I would characterize my mental attitude as
humanistic. So I really don't care if the install tool uses Mickey Mouse
pictures or whatever as long as is does its job.

-- 
Wenn man keine Ahnung hat: Einfach mal Fresse halten!
(If you have no clues: simply shut your knob sometimes!)
Dieter Nuhr, German comedian
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