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Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best

Posted by timothy on from the creepy's-definitely-the-way-to-go dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I'm Debian by nobodylocalhost · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really? I thought for sure slackware would be it.

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  2. Didn't Novell already do this? by argent · · Score: 4, Informative

    Two years ago?

    1. Re:Didn't Novell already do this? by Galois2 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Two years ago?

      That is a funny reply to the Mac ad series, but have people already forgotten the great linux ad which *preceded* either the Mac or PC ad series? Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4 It includes Mohommad Ali, Sylvia Nasar, Penny Marshall, and former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden.

  3. Re:Link to youtube videos by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's one (the one the submitter called one of the better ones):

    Challenges at the Office

    Some of the other ones are under the related videos.

  4. Since the server already melted.... by Skylinux · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

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  5. Re:Link to youtube videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is the "hilarious but inappropriate" one. The other two are NOT on Youtube, acually, but as far as I can tell, they're here and here, respectively, in wget-able FLV glory.

  6. Re:I'm Debian by VagaStorm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Akording to wikipedia you are correct, yggdrasil linux releaced first alpha on 8 December 1992, before both slakware and debian who came out in 1993 but Softlanding Linux System (SLS) precceded them all. (I knew nothing of this b4 I looked it up :p)

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  7. Re:And that so sums up Linux... by Americano · · Score: 4, Informative

    People don't give a fuck about computers. It's like a car: the only time they care is when it isn't doing what they want it to.

    Well said. Put slightly differently by Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt:

    People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

    There's a reason why most Mac ads talk about how the Mac makes "real stuff" (photos, video, music, email, setting up a new printer...) easy: it's the holes they're talking about, not the drill.