[CoLoCo] OSX, UBUNTU, or Windows... take your pick... a PC that runs them all...

[Andrew]

hmm.... interesting. I like the idea of someone viewing both commercials and
laughing. I'd laugh just watching someone laugh at them.

It would be nice to see a Linux commercial that is as creative and appealing
as the mac commercials, yet informative. I'd like to see canonical try and
fund a commercial. But, i doubt that will happen, so I'd be just happy to
see any Linux commercial even if community created and put on youtube. I
guess there are a few on youtube already, but most don't seem that good.



On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 09:15 -0600, David Overcash wrote:
> >
> >
> >         To put it bluntly, most Windows users bullshit themselves into
> >         thinking
> >         they're superior.  Plain and simple.
> >
> > Or they have no idea there is an alternative...  : )
>
> Or they listen to Microsoft marking and think the kool-aid is all there
> is to drink.
>
> Today, Microsoft announced that they admit there were some problems with
> Vista.  Basically, they did not do a good enough job getting the word
> out of all of Vista's fine qualities (you know like requiring 3x the
> machine to do the same job with half the reliability... because they
> care).
>
> They also announced that they were going to begin a new advertising
> campaign to counter Apple's ads (you know the ones... Hi I'm a Mac...).
> They are going to differentiate themselves based upon what makes Windows
> superior to Mac... Yep, you guessed it, unlike Mac, Windows is not
> proprietary, and can run on any type of Windows based machine, not just
> those made by Apple, so you don't get that vendor lock-in.  Don't you
> wish you could be this clueless also.
>
> Trust me, drink the kool-aid
>
> I think the Linux community needs a commercial that competes with these
> two idiots.  Here is what I propose:
>
> ------------------------------
> A well to do man is sitting in a wing back chair.  He is wearing a suit,
> with the Wall Street Journal  on the table next to him.  His tie is
> loosened.  You can tell that he is exhausted, and just watching TV.  One
> of those Apple commercials comes on, and he chuckles (after all don't we
> all?) and changed the channel.
>
> On the TV is the Microsoft ad that is calling Apple proprietary.  The
> man starts laughing so hard he is doubling over in pain.
>
> Screen fades to black, a dozen or so Linux distro icons come up (Red
> Hat, Fedora, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, etc).  In the center of all those
> icons comes the tag line...
>
> Linux... Real Choice
> with no vendor lockin
> ------------------------------
>
> No Words!  Just laughter.
>
>
> -
> Kevin Fries
> Senior Linux Engineer
> Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
> A Division of Japan Communications Inc.
>
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>
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> >
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