[natethomas]

My only irritation (personally) is that every time somebody does a news story about the Raspberry Pi, they always feature Raspbmc and describe it as a media center made by one kid while he was in high school, instead of a port of a project that's 15 years old with contributions from hundreds of individuals. I don't think that's Sam's fault, but it very much irks me that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal still haven't actually written the name XBMC or Kodi in their respective papers.

Sorry to bring this to you Nate, but who's fault is that?

Is he just very good in communication/marketing, or are you just very bad at it?

To me, it very much looks like, he is doing a way better job than you and that is what irritates you.

It could be that he is better at marketing than I am, though I don't think that would especially bother me. Lots of people are better marketers than I am. The woman who did the marketing work for the Ouya launch was practically a genius compared to me. The only difference is that the Ouya people were careful to give us credit when they were talking about our software.

With that said, I still don't blame him for us not being mentioned. I had a twitter exchange that included both Sam and Joanna Stern from the WSJ after her Raspberry Pi 2 article came out, and I believe he even specifically said that he mentioned the entire rest of the organization while talking to her. My current guess as to why Raspbmc and OSMC are mentioned without XBMC/Kodi is that he's a Brit and the RPi is a British organization, so when reporters are directed towards the media center capabilities of the Pi, it's pretty easy to point in his general direction for a quick look at what's possible, then, once they've covered that area in a few words, they don't bother digging any deeper. In other words, Sam may be better at marketing than I am, but Eben Upton (and his team) make us both look like marketing chumps in comparison. That whole group is brilliant.

Anyway, this conversation is now way off topic. If people would like to talk about my relative failings as a marketer or anything else marketing related, I'd be happy to keep up the conversation in a new thread. Back to Vero.