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He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux!
davidmwilliams writes "Earlier this year the Linux Foundation launched a competition for budding writers, film makers and just general Linux enthusiasts to make their own grassroots advertisement to compete with Apple's highly-successful 'I'm a Mac' series of adverts. The winner has now been announced."
Nothing quite as exciting as a spoof like two years after the original ads started and about a year after they stopped being cool.
I heard Weird Al was coming up with a parody of the Bee Gees next week...
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I especially love that you need flash to watch it off of youtube.
Okay, nobody get mad at me, I run my hosting business on CentOS and all my computers dual boot to Ubuntu. My six-year old son likes Ubuntu so much that he writes his name in that roundy Ubuntu lettering.
But when I mentally set the stage for this commercial, I imagine a little dwarf coming out and saying, "I'm Linux, do you guys know how to get my wireless card working? I'm having trouble printing. Why can't I play this damn DVD?"
Man, I hope I've got some karma to spare...
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am glad it wasnt the "i, you, we are linux" ad... that one had me terrified that linux would inevitably pick up a phased plasma rifle in the 50 watt range and...well....try and find Sarah Connor.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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He's a Mac, He's a PC, [and] We're Linux!
Can three operating systems from three different cultures get along in the same wacky network? Tune in this fall to NBC for _Broken Pipes_, the hilarious new sitcom from those nutty writers behind BSD and VMS!
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
At least they didn't mention anything about a 'Whispering Eye' and start giggling... I guess that's a positive.
Linux: Netcraft confirms that FreeBSD is dead.
Economy.
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Red ink flows like a river of blood.
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Linux
Less is more.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
So wait, we are fighting to give the Iraqis Linux. Have we decided on a distro yet?
Here's the old Linux ad by IBM. It's pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4
Interesting IBM product...
http://www.ibm.com/open
To bad it leads to a nasty 404
Linux is everywhere... Linux is nowhere
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Since that wouldn't help me make a pretentious linux nerd joke.
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