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Is Kazaa distribution part of the answer? (was: Python and p2p)

Carlos Ribeiro cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br
Wed Feb 5 20:25:42 EST 2003 
On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:31 am, you wrote:
> Even simpler, why not put copies of free Python eBooks on python.org?

A very good idea (and it should be done), but it does not address one of the 
problems here: many people still 'don't get it'. Many of the younger people - 
teenagers at high school and college freshmans - were introduced to the 'Net 
by Napster, and then migrated to Kazaa. For these people it's pretty much as 
if Google didn't exist; in the worst cases, the Net is about IRC, ICQ and P2P 
software, and the Web is about looking for cracks using astalavista.box.sk 
and similar sites. That's not to say that they're not smart, just that 
they've got the 'Net from a very different perspective from ours, and with a 
completely different set of priorities.

You may argue that this is a cultural problem on the part of theirs. Well, you 
may be fully right, but thinking marketing wise, why not publish the books 
the way they're used to? We can surely reach more people this way.


Carlos Ribeiro
cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br
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