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IBM's New Linux Advertising

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-blue's-big-bucks dept.

Amit Shah writes "IBM is airing a commercial featuring Linux as reported on Economic Times. This could be the first major way to reach out to normal users and explain the benefits of open source and Linux. The ad says, "Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community""

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  1. You completely inhale the pastes in crust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It has come to my attention that you completely inhale the pastes in crust. Read on for more about this fascinating topic.

    The world went into shock a few weeks ago when goatse.info reported the results of a study which concluded that inhaling paste is a very dangerous pastime, one that no one is advised to take up. Eventually, everyone adapted to the new state of affairs and began inhaling other things. Almost everyone, that is. But not you! According to my records, you still inhale paste!

    Why?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!

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  2. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sorry, the above link has a typo
    Click here instead.

  3. Re:No Stallman?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Blond eyes and blue hair?

    Does this have anything to do with IBM selling technology to Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp? Approximately 24 IBM sorters, tabulators and printers used to kill between 700,000 to 1.2 million Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, political prisoners and homosexuals...

    Go linux!

  4. Re:No penguin?! by micromoog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe IBM realized that a fat, slow bird that doesn't even do the one thing "normal birds" are expected to do doesn't really reflect well on the OS.

  5. Re: First Campaign? by scotch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Give me his name and address so I can go punch him in the throat.

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