[External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2024 at 11:09 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
> Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, "Jeremy Bryant" <jb@jeremybryant.net>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other
>
> > Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > > language / hyperbole, IMO that description is not
> > > only too subdued
> > 
> > I’ll add that being subdued about strength can actually be harmful.
> > 
> > While false marketing is a problem, not doing marketing and not pointing
> > out the strengths of your project causes people to use systems that are
> > less suited to their requirements than your project.
> > 
> > Because other people will use marketing. And marketing works.
> > 
> > But marketing can be honest. Its goal is then to ensure that the people
> > to whom your project would be useful learn about the project.¹
> > 
> > ⇒ Good marketing starts with the existing strengths of a project and
> >   finds people to whom these strengths are useful.
> > 
> > This also means to use language that conveys enthusiasm.
> > 
> > If you are silent about actual strength of your project, many people to
> > whom choosing your project would be the best decision will not find your
> > project when they are in a situation where they can choose it.
> > 
> > So the Emacs website and documentation should not sell elisp short.
> 
> "marketing", "marketing", "marketing",
> "marketing", "marketing", "marketing".
> 
> FWIW, a description, accurate or inaccurate, isn't
> necessarily marketing.  We're not selling Emacs or
> Elisp.  There's no market involved.
> 
> (Generations deranged by invasive commodification...)
> 

Because marketing today makes extensive use of social sciences, psychology, 
sociology, mathematics, economics, anthropology and neuroscience, the profession
is now widely recognized as a scam.  The same applies to areas such as Human Resources.