IBM's New Linux Advertising

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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I was promised flying cars...

[soren42]

For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than the IBM Linux ads that Avery Brooks did... particularly memorable was the ad that went something like "In the early ninties, a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds develops a new operating system, and then he does something remarkable - he gives it away."

That and "Where the flying cars? I was promised flying cars!"

Transcript

[The Monster]

Here's the transcript on IBM's site. My favorite bit is the Latin teacher:

Res publica non dominetur.

I think that last word is misspelled, (dominatur) but the gist of the translation is something like

The commonwealth is not owned/dominated

which sounds like an in your FACE to the Smoking Crack Oraganization and their shadow overlords in Redmond.