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Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best
An anonymous reader writes "Everyone has seen Apple's clever 'I'm a Mac' ads, and Microsoft's attempted responses, first with Jerry Seinfeld, and next with 'I'm a PC.' The Linux Foundation tries to fire back with its community-generated 'We're Linux' video contest: all of the eligible videos have now been submitted and are ready to be voted on. Thankfully, the quality of Linux is much higher than the quality of some of these entries: entries range from the hilarious but inappropriate, to the well-made but creepy, to the 'I'm sure it sounded good in your head.' Thankfully, there are one or two that could actually be real commercials."
I'm Debian, the mother of all Linuxen
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
What ever happened to:
ahttp://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Great product, shame about the marketing. That's why Canonical / Ubuntu is so important.
Already Slashdotted, 2009-03-18, 11:36 AM PDT
The original "Penguin" from the old Batman TV series would be a great Linux spokesperson.
Anyone happen to get the links to the videos on YouTube? I was only able to watch one before the site stopped responding.
Slackware was the Daddy. Like the God Amen, Slackware created himself.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I'm getting "failed to connect" errors on every one of those links.
Two years ago?
And apparently I don't serve out web pages any better than IIS.
We're Linux, and our site is down.
Linux marketing = epic win.
I find this situation to be a very fitting analogy to the computing world as a whole. Apple does something that gets attention. Microsoft makes their cheap knockoff of it. Then the OSS/Linux guys come along and say "Hey, we can do that, too!"
Apple We did it first and got a lot of attention doing it.
Microsoft copies it and makes it their own.
Linux jumps in and goes ME TOO!!!! ME TOO!!!!
First Time it is cool
Second time it is kinda background noise
By the third time it gets pathetic, and over used.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Jay Maynard, the TRON guy
These commercials couldn't sell a sandwich to a starving man. Much less an operating system to a non-technical audience.
Unfortunately the server already melted so here are a few videos Novell produced to market Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3AXo5i_XYI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJePMwEMWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8WNPvjtjQg
Everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform.
I got corrected elsewhere for this. Wouldn't that be, "I'm GNU/Linux", or "I'm a GNU/Linux Distro"?
Reprising his role as Jules from Pulp Fiction:
Jules: [Jules shoots the man on the couch, who turns out to be Steve Jobs, turns to talk to Bill Gates] I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Linus Torvalds look like?
Bill: What?
Jules: What OS do you run?
Bill: What? What? Wh - ?
Jules: "What" ain't no OS I've ever heard of. They have a usable command line in What?
Bill: What?
Jules: Usable command line, mother fucker, do you have one?
Bill: Yes! Yes!
Jules: Then you know what I'm sayin'!
Bill: Yes!
Jules: Describe what Linus Torvalds looks like!
Bill: What?
Jules: Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
[end scene, fade out with Linux, Operating System of Bad Mother Fuckers everywhere]
Sent from your iPad.
Aren't linux machines still Personal Computers?
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheLinuxFoundation&view=videos&sort=v
Isn't part of the point of linux that there isn't a face to it?
Linux is my mailserver
Linux runs my mythtv
Linux runs on my access point
Linux runs on my sister's laptop.
Linux runs on our company's DVR.
Linux is not an operating system for the desktop or for the server, or for the embedded device. Linux is an operating system for EVERYTHING.
Its like a ball of clay, endless potential and totally at the hands of the artist.
NewslilySocial News. No lolcats allowed.
"Hey guys, let's do everything possible to exacerbate the 'me too' image problem Linux already has!"
This campaign is probably the worst idea ever, and of course it's only coming to fruition long after the initial luster of the Apple commercials has faded and people already find them played out.
"Microsoft's attempted responses"? What does that even mean? How are Microsoft's nationally broadcast advertisements only "attempts" to respond Apple's "clever" strategy of "make the other guys look lame and nerdy"?
Not seeing any bias here.
Linux Foundation is slashdotted.... (loads gnu.org) whoa am I glad that there isn't just one face of linux...
I can't watch the commercials because the site is slashdotted, but here's what I think: Instead of doing the I'm a mac, I'm a PC exchange commercials, they should get Stallman and Torvalds to do the commercial, each one playing "linux". I think it would emphasize the tension the linux community has regarding the priority of freedom:
Torvalds: "Hello, I'm linux."
Stallman: "You should really refer to him as GNU/linux, and me too."
Torvalds: "We reliably operate huge numbers of servers, embedded devices and personal computers and have support for a a huge array of hardware devices."
Stallman: "But most importantly, we allow you to have the freedom share your ideas with others and be able to use other's ideas enriching all of us simultaneously."
Torvalds: "...and making big bank."
Stallman: "uhh, what?"
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the war room!
Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Frink
We willna be fooled again!
The parent post says: "... hilarious but inappropriate, to the well-made but creepy, to the 'I'm sure it sounded good in your head.'"
If I was in MS's marketing department I'd be all over the bad videos. I'd show them to everyone I could and explain, 'See? This is the type of person who identifies w/ Linux. This is how they brand them selves. These type of people will be working on your servers, looking through the source code, etc.'
My job would be done, people thinking about switching over would be creeped out, and a fuzzy warm marketing glow would ensue.... ;)
It won't be good marketing at all if the audience can't figure out if it's a guy or a girl speaking. Or gets confused when the voice doesn't match the person saying it.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
I checked them out yesterday and they're all shit. If any of them got aired on the mainstream media then I'm wiping my Ubuntu partition and installing Vista
Does this question really need to be asked. The answer is clearly Gary Gnu.
This guy's the limit!
Would appear though the Linux box hosting the "I'm Linux" videos has been Slashdotted into submission. I'm betting it wishes it wasn't Linux at the moment.
epic fail. who'd want that in their lives?
Linux client market share needs some help. I think it is great to get the word out there that Linux is a viable desktop alternative, and maybe this will turn out to be a good way to win some converts. However, I think perhaps learning from what worked well for Firefox and then perhaps building a similar grassroots campaign combined with a well designed site that shows some real desktop advantages offered by some of the more polished distributions combined with the option to download easily runnable OS images (i.e. VMWare Player) might fare better.
Hi, I'm linux and the load on my server is getting very h
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Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
Can't RTFA because the link is down, but 'We're Linux' ought to be a school cafeteria with all the distros having a food fight.
mmmm...forbidden donut
Funny.
... says the crowd of benevolent servants.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
[Cut to suburban home basement. Room contains boxspring mattress, cinderblock and plank bookshelf, and cable spool table. On the floor is indoor/outdoor kitchen-print carpet. On the walls are a selection of tattered scifi movie posters, including Natalie Portman in torn jumpsuit poster from Episode II. Glow in the dark stars dot the ceiling, from which dangle several hand painted styrofoam "planets". There is a stack of obsolete game consoles in the corner. Computer in aluminum and plexiglass supertower case with purple lighting is next to table, on which are two unmatched LCD monitors. Pale overweight adolescent enters from stage left. He is wearing black jeans, and black tee-shirt with penguin and wildebeest motif. The hair is short spiked dyed pink, but black roots are prominent.]
Adolescent: "I am Linux! Ph3&r me!"
[Cue jingle. Wipe to series logo.]
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
I don't know if it's been done (links are dead to me), but why not make Tux the face of Linux in an ad?
Get a bunch of Tuxes made in various sizes (or digitally modelled) and show people doing things in their daily routine, with the penguins replacing phones, laptops, servers, embedded devices, etc.
And at the end of the ad, the simple text:
Linux, you're already using it.
A guy who will very happily do basic tasks, but won't do many truely significan't things, and is a bloody nightmare to get to do anything unusual, thanks to requiring the editing of tons of intricately worded contracts.
(In other news: I hate editing poorly-documented config files)
I think Ballmer converted more people to Linux than anyone else. I was a staunch Microsoft supporter until I saw the dancing monkey boy.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Someone just has to create an ESPN/Porn OS and market it on Comedy Channel.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Microsoft makes their INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE knockoff (which still flops).
Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
Apple has the Mac guy
Microsoft has Jerry Seinfeld
Linux has.... this guy?
Offtopic, and I know this. Don't bother, you can't ding my karma any more..
Had to watch it again after I picked up the jazzy lounge riff..
Yes, it's the Krautrock great, 'CAN', performing "She Brings the Rain", providing yet another soundtrack!
WOO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ufsWO476A
(ahem, sorry - a fan!)
one of the best Linux adds I have seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSEGj3PK4Is
Awhile back when they were making Shrek, there was a rather lengthy printed article/advertisement on why they chose Linux for most of their production. It had a lot of shameless plugs for HP, but also quite a few mentions of the virtues of a free and freely configurable OS.
I'd always thought it'd be a cute commercial to see Shrek walking along having a conversation with the Donkey about Linux. The donkey would ask all of the typical FUD questions, and Shrek would explain them all and throw in a few jokes here and there.
It's a face everyone knows and isn't intimidated by, and a product (the movies) that people enjoyed.
Star Wars Kid
I can see why Apple and M$ want an ad campaign where the users equate themselves with the product, but I fail to see why the Linux community would want to blindly follow that dubious example.
I am not Linux. I am a Linux user. My reaction to the "I'm a PC" ad campaign is to reply, "You might as well call yourself a toaster. Moron."
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4&NR=1
Awesome!
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
The thing that's always bugged me about those Apple ads is the suggestion that because you have a Mac you'll suddenly be creative, and because you have a PC you'll have boring work to do.
I don't know about everyone else, but I like my computer because it does those boring jobs for me. I want a tool to do spreadsheets. It means I spend less time doing that and can be off doing my own thing. Mac doesn't. Mac comes across as a layabout rockstar wannabe. Some of us have to work and pay the bills.
Im a human being, not a kernel.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Slashdotted...
Mac: "please...kill me now."
How about...
Mac: "please... kill yourself now."
I like this one: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1271
I dunno about Linux, but I nominate Ceren Ercen to represent BSD.
Yes I know she doesn't do that anymore.
Even so.
My other Slashdot ID is much lower.
This one is quite funny.. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
Annoyingly, whilst the videos seem to be on YouTube, the site linking them has been slashdotted.
All we need is the YouTube links.
I managed to divine one of them before the site in the middle went totally TU.
"hilarious but inappropriate" can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjRdA25yauU
Slackware was the Daddy. Like the God Amen, Slackware created himself.
Yes, that's one of my favorite mythological editing blunders: Atum (later lumped in with Amun and Re) was a creator god, first-born of the gods, who birthed himself from the waters of chaos (later personified as the god Nun) by His own will. The god Thoth, scribe of the gods, was on hand to record this birth of the first god.
I love Ancient Egyptian mythology, if for no other reason than the wonderful editing it went through when various cities unified (and thus merged their religions). Christianity is messed up too, but people ignore the inconsistencies (have you sacrificed any animals lately? Heathen?)
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
... was stupid and annoying for Microsoft and is the same for Linux. If no one in the open source community can come up with a marketing idea better than copying third-hand from Apple, the community is in trouble.
That is all.
On the surface I seemingly hate those blood-sucking capitalists at M$, but I secretly wish I was just like them. That's why I look like an out-of-focus version of Vista. Hell, I even go as far as to annoy the hell out of you with automatic updates
I'm UNIX
You know me
In the last conference call for SourceForge, inc (LNUX, they bring you slashdot if you did not know), mentioned a big push to raise the profile of open source and related markets that source forge covers, to better educate advertisers on the nature of the IT market they can reach. They mentioned that they have a direct pipe to the core of the IT community, but mainstream advertisers really don't understand what that means.
Part of that I bet, is raising the public profile of linux and open source in general. Thus, the linux.com partnership with the Linux Foundation, and so on recently.
I say, well done if that is what is happening. No one has done more to promote open source, than the guys at SourceForge. They are basically in the open source and related projects promotion buisness, and have found a way to make it commercially viable to help people give shit away for free.
That is my pet theory of what this is all about. Either way, hope it works.
Living in Chile
Who says "I'm Lunix" the best? That's so obvious- Hans Reiser!
The only way someone could be better is if they were a serial killer!
$ date -d '2009-03-18 11:36 AM PDT' +%s
1237401360
Then the FOSS people come along and say you should get a car based solely on the brand of transmission (kernel) inside.
Not brilliant. Its been like watching a whole subculture go through a decade-long neurosis, trying to push something to users that they mostly cannot see or touch.
Imagine if Apple constantly went on and on about OpenDarwin / XNU in their mass-market advertising. Or if Mozilla waged a "Get Gecko" campaign to end-users... They would be in the 1-2% penetration bracket nowadays with a nonsensical message like that.
Then there is the 'Get Ubuntu' crowd, which I admire (and I followed their advice). BUT Ubuntu is not a PC platform: It doesn't have a set UI to make life manageable for users and tech support alike, nor an SDK for app developers, nor a program for certifying hardware for the OS, nor a way to independently distribute application packages that will still work 6 months (nevermind 2-6 years) down the road.
In fact, Firefox looks more like a PC platform in some important areas than any Linux distro.
You might just mention what is missing; Loads of Virus, Loads of Drm, Loads of apps that are illegal to run, etc, etc, etc. When ppl think about the costs of running WIndows, they tend to walk away.
George Costanza?
Why not make something like "I am Spartacus"? Viruses dressed as Romans have a lot of people gathered up and start asking who's Linux. Then some random cool-geeky-looking-type stands up and sais "I'm Linux" then a whole lot of other random people stand up, all walks of life and start saying "I'm Linux." You know, community & internationalization & everything else?
I'd do this myself but I'm lacking in resources or talent or time to pull this off.
How are Microsoft's nationally broadcast advertisements only "attempts" to respond Apple's "clever" strategy of "make the other guys look lame and nerdy"?
Because they didn't work.
Long long ago, I started using Linux. First as an internet sharing device, next to host a little web, then added mail. I used Windows because I was (and still am) learning Japanese and wanted to keep myself immersed as much as possible and nothing in Linux at the time could do it as easily as Windows. I kept testing and trying until eventually it matured and now it is better than Windows. I switched at the very moment I considered XFree86 (there was no X.org yet) and GNOME were both Japanese-compatible and Japanese-comfortable enough for me to switch and I haven't looked back since. Initially to get my switch on, I made the wilful determination not to dual-boot and not to do anything that couldn't be done under Linux. This really cut out my gaming, frankly, but it was a fairly healthy decision as I wasted too much time playing games anyway. But for everything else, it wasn't quite as polished as existing matured Windows-ware but progress was being made. This was long ago. Things have really progressed. It may seem slow and gradual, but for anyone who has been involved with Linux as long as I have, it is very clear that significant gains and strides have been made. (We don't yet have a Linux president yet, but I have HOPE for CHANGE one day...)
My "I'm Linux" video would be that I don't do anything special at all with Linux. I do everything that everyone else does with Linux and typically more. I do it without threat of malware or "system rot" (slowness over time) or fear that something like a music CD might actually contain a back-door into my computer. I do it without paying anyone anything I don't want to buy with digital rights management or other such nonsense. I do it without a corporation telling me what "cool" is and not letting me do anything that isn't "cool." I do it without making my personal computer into a marketing channel for millions of companies I don't care about. I'm Linux. I do what I want to do... not what they want me to do.
Important for... the marketing? I disagree. It's the product. I must have tried to convert to Linux at least 5 times, and most times I tried several distributions - Redhat, Debian, Mandrake, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, Ubuntu (in the early days), as well as the small distros like DSL and Puppy. I did not find any of them to be really livable at the time I tried them. Ubuntu Feisty was the first time I found a distro that did things acceptably enough for me to live with, even though because of its popularity I really did not want to like it. Canonical/Ubuntu is important because they have lowered the bar to Linux adoption through working on ease of use issues and through their newbie friendly ubuntuforums.org. The emphasis is on great product first, the marketing will take care of itself.
I think in many cases the next logical adopters of Linux know what Linux is and why they should adopt it. They have seen friends they admire use it and envy the power, or heard it talked up in online forums. Marketing is not needed for them. They know that learning Linux is an investment - more work up front that will pay back that effort and more in the long term. Chances are good that they have indeed tried it before and failed. In many of those cases, they will try it again. Why? Windows is like the abusive alcoholic boyfriend - the user is the battered wife that keeps coming back despite all the flaws because he's the devil they know, and it's less work! But every so often, Windows will push people to their limits - a malware hosed computer, having to pay the MS tax, whatever.
Even those who have tried Linux, fail and vow to never go there again will be tempted to do so again out of pride when they see someone with less technical skill embrace linux. (If that klutz can make it work, why can't I?)
On a related note, a pertinent question to ask in terms of marketing is "What sort of user isn't currently using Linux now but would find it useful? How do I reach them?", and more importantly, "What sort of user will cause many other people to use Linux? How do I reach them?". Asking that will provide most bang per buck.
I think in a lot of ways the product is there and the right people are adopting it. Hacker kids embrace Linux because it is powerful and they have unlimited time to make things work. Entrepreneurial kids (and people in general) embrace Linux because they have time and ability but lack money, which allows low-risk business experimentation. Even if they don't start companies, they appreciate the low-cost aspect of Linux. As those two groups of people move up the IT ladder, the corporate ladder or bring new corporations into being, Linux will infiltrate the corporation. As both groups of people install Linux in the homes of their families and friends, the install base will also grow as people are initially exposed or forced into using Linux, then become familiar with it and resistant to change.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
My idea: Slashdot people stick to slashdottery and raise enough money to hire creative professionals to change consumers' minds about Linux.
In order to facilitate access to the videos, we have uploaded several that were hosted locally on our site over the weekend to YouTube, which should allow the LF video site to handle the /. traffic load.
Also, here are the direct links to the videos mentioned in the summary, in the order they were listed:
"hilarious but inappropriate"
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1095
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjRdA25yauU
"well-made but creepy"
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1246
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXhRVCMyGwM
"I'm sure it sounded good in your head"
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1244
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2azKFJZrg
"one"
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1261
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwmfyeHBFlM
"two"
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1057
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svaHnha-PXs
Thanks for your patience,
Brian Proffitt
Community Manager
im sure with all the open-source available someone ...
can hack together a video from interviews from un-
suspecting people from the sreeet
"i'm a linux"
This is much better than the ones above in my opinion and it doesn't simply make a play on the Mac/PC adds from Apple like Novell's ads did earlier.
This is pretty classy if a bit obscure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgo3BBgWDA&NR=1
And this one, long but well done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwnxKOpxqU&NR=1
Not as good and playing off the MS "I'am a PC" ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhGoxFqNWc&NR=1
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
Does your computer run incredibly slow? Does it crash randomly for no apparent reason? Does a well documented function often do something weird or unexpected? Chances are, you are running a Microsoft product.
Come out of the Microsoft dark ages and into the light. A brand new age where your computer does what you want it to do, not what some corporate executive allows it to do.
We are Linux Labs and we are here to help.
"Hello! I'm Hans Reiser! I'm Linux!"
garethw
shouldn't that be like 'fan'gels or something to keep in line with the forums theme? Just saying is all...
No, I think that makes the joke an order of magnitude more awkward and not any funnier.
Why stick to a "forums theme" anyway? Folks can talk about things on forums that aren't forum-related, you know...
Bow-ties are cool.
seems alright, I mean, other than the stupid setup... except, by sharing the doughnut they each only get half! WTF!
I have two issues with this:
one, this doesn't at all represent real life with how sharing Linux is. When you share Linux you still get to have the whole thing (provided you follow the terms it is being offered under.)
two, who wants only half a doughnut?
I would like to see a commercial where a user turns on his shiny new laptop running Gates 2010. The system prompts him to enter a 35-digit CD-Key, which is barely legible and located on the *bottom* of his computer. He types in the product key, and the computer talks. It says, "This product key is invalid, you filthy Pirating scumbag!" The user types the key a second and a third time (with fast animation). The computer continues to taunt him each time and refuse to function.
Flash forward to another scene, where the user is enjoying his laptop. The user tells his computer to record a show from television, and it refuses. The synthesizer comes on again and says "Only Pirates record TV... get to the store and buy the DVD before I notify the mafIAA!" (The computer's box should be near buy, and it should clearly state that the computer can function as a DVR.)
At the end of the commercial, everything goes black. Then, one line of text appears:
Linux: because the computer should do what you tell it to.
OK cool that French video got me sold on Linux because it seems to say that if I put that Linux thing on computers then cute French nurses will fall for me and laugh at my jokes. But what's that Linux thing you're talking about, where do I get it? *googles some* okay, looks like there's lots of them, so what do I want, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware?
My point is, while you can tell people "got milk?" cause they know how to obtain milk, you can't tell people "get Linux", it's too confusing. Choose a precise product and market it.
You just got troll'd!
The hot chick in the spooof commercials!
Linux has a long way to go for the common man. People buy computers with Windows or OSX installed, not linux. If they get linux accidentally, as we already saw with netbooks, they return it. There is so much easy-to-install software available for Windows, the methods while using it are familiar, they're heavily entrenched with the OEMs (and corrupt enough to fight with them over linux if need be), have a lot of money to spend on advertising and legal fees, etc, etc, etc. Moms, dads, and grandparents are never, ever going to download an Ubuntu ISO and try to install it. Why not instead focus on what linux IS good at? For instance, a while back I needed to serve up subdomains that had SSL security enabled for each one on the same IP address. IIS does this with a little metabase hackery, but Apache is completely incapable of it. Keep Windows down in the server market. There aren't any really stand-out "Small Business Server" equivalent distros, either, which is especially maddening considering most small businesses would love a free, stable OS for the services they take for granted.
Two ordinary cool advert-type people walking along, having a discussion.
"So, if you don't know much about cars, what's the best way to decide what car to buy?"
"Well, I guess you find someone who knows about cars, and ask them."
"And how do you choose what toothpaste to choose?"
"I suppose you could ask your dentist what toothpaste he uses."
"And what about computers? What operating system do you go for?"
Cut to a series of short clips of geeky types in their basements, all showing off their Linux desktops and professing their love for the penguin.
Slogan: "Linux. If you don't believe us, ask your geek."
I am John/Sue ... This is my Linux (hold up phone, mp3 player, point to server rack, google) etc
Apple is not really in the business of selling functional computers to "make 'real stuff'" that you don't have to think about. They in large part really are selling the computer itself, and want you to focus on the computer, not just on what you're going to do with it. That's why they put such a huge effort into style and branding; the metallic laptop style was not introduced because it made it easier to make real stuff with them.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
dropped this project on a few other people..
then forgot about it myself...
(rant mode on, then stuffed inna dumper)
we are the future anyway.
pat
packrat ; writer-informer. http://packrat.comicgenesis.com http://www.youtube.com/area163 https://www.smashwords.com/
Linux is not one person.
The phrase should be:
a) composition of millions of people saying "i'm Linux".. as in all the help of people creating oss
b) or no single voice should be selected as there is no single Linux distro
Ok... while scanning the headlines on the front page, the juxtaposition of the Parrot 1.0.0 release and this article put images in my head of people training their parrots to say "I'm Linux".
Glad you posted that. Our alternative American Peoples Front Party was looking for a black guy to be chairman.
Yoda already does the penguin walk... (looks over shoulder for Lucas Lawyers...)
I don't care about Linux getting a majority of desktops. But when the share of computers running non-Microsoft products gets too small, the internet becomes largely incompatible with anyone not using MS software.
And besides, why on earth would a third-tier OS with less than a 2% market share need a PR campaign... especially since it's free (meaning there is no way to even pay for advertising, etc)?
Lunix needs it's own personal version of the Wookie defense.