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Voluntary Sponsorship of Linux?
shift8key asks: "Last year, a friend asked me whether I would sponsor his NASCAR race car.
The sponsorship came cheap and I decided to do it. Since I did not have a commercial message for my business, I had him put 'Linux.org'
and a penguin on the hood. He had more inquiries about it than any other message on his car. My community phonebook called me to ask if I would repeat the message there, and I think I will do it. Have any Slashdot readers
ever done any voluntary sponsorship of Linux? If so, what experiences did you have?"
A real-life TuxRacer! Nice!
subject says it all
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
i guess the important question everyone wants to know is...
how much is "fairly cheap" sponsorship?
moox. for a new generation.
NASCAR isn't successful because of the Rednecks, it's successful despite the Rednecks. Granted, Wal-Mart and Target do target the Redneck contingent, however, there's a lot of sponsorship to go around. Bayer AG sponsers a car in the Busch league. Why would a German Pharma company sponsor a car? BECAUSE A SHITLOAD OF PEOPLE WATCH NASCAR, NOT JUST REDNECKS.
Granted, Bayer AG has given a lot to the world: Asprin and Heroin.
You are a sad, sad man. There are more important things in life than computer operating systems, you know.
If you really want to make a difference, why not sponsor a child in some 3rd world country?
You linux dudes need to get some perspective on the world!
Now that there is to be a commercial moon mission, you might be able to get a sticker there...
:)
While NASA would appreciate more funding, I don't think they want to scrape charred sticker remains off the shuttle after each mission.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
Meye speling sux.
I have a Linux Fish on my car. Does that count?
Software Wars
Didn't they also participate in many of the experiments performed at concentration camps during the holocaust? I seem to remember hearing something of that...
/usr/games/fortune
Its really hard to see all the logos on cars going 180+ MPH. What is the car and who is the driver? I'll also ask you to define "Fairly Cheap", someone already has, but if you see it here first...
Sig? What's a Sig?
He is helping the children by helping to build a stronger information commons. It is from that Info Commons that the real developments that will make life better come from.
"Have any Slashdot readers ever done any voluntary sponsorship of Linux?"
I like to go around town with spraypaint and write EAT MORE LINUX on peoples cars. Then I lie in the gutter and twitch, and yell at people about how stupid they are for supporting the Evil M$ Empire.
Bayer also supplied a lot of the toxic gasses the Germans used in WW I.
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Every driver should do this, since we all know that Linux never crashes. ;)
We could stop sending our toxic computer waste to their countries. We could stop quietly condoning their use of child labor in sweatshop conditions. They could use food, water, shelter.
Even this guy had something sane to say about it, can you guess his name before you follow the link?
Do people have any concept of what it means to live on less than a dollar a day? There's no electricity. Do they have PCs that don't use electricity?"
Just don't post the link here... unless you want to get slashdotted!
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
Not all blue-collar folks are Rednecks. Despite the fact that a lot of Rednecks watch NASCAR and a lot of people make fun of Rednecks, NASCAR is still the most watched sport in the USA. NASCAR wouldn't be as successful if ONLY Rednecks watched it.
The one race I did go to (Busch series in NH), I was a guest of Bayer and had a grand old time. I would wager that only about 70% of the people there were blue-collar and only half of them could be considered REDNECKS. So, if only the REDNECKS showed up, then the place would've been 35% filled.
--Mike
IBM did this here in San Francisco. And got in trouble
The fact that they were essentially permanent didn't help either.
-Sean