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He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux!

Posted by timothy on from the those-other-people-are-blenders dept.

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."

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  1. I love the "Do you know what free means" video! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I especially love that you need flash to watch it off of youtube.

  2. I'm Linux... by Chysn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:I'm Linux... by pseudonomous · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's using the new beta, they ported it to his arm.

  3. i for one by nimbius · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And thus you have accomplished more than the average Slashdotter manages in a whole week.

  5. The fall's hot new sitcom by Captain+Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  6. Re:and I'm FreeBSD by ultrabot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux: Netcraft confirms that FreeBSD is dead.

    Economy.

    pause

    Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Some classical music, crescendo

    Linux

    Less is more.

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  7. Re:Wow by Korin43 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah and that time Linux totally ripped off Vista's 'Aero' effects..

  8. No deal! by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since that wouldn't help me make a pretentious linux nerd joke.

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  9. Re:Wow by cptnapalm · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I just want the stuff to work"

    If all this stuff "just works" then why do I so regularly get requested by the "just works" customers to make something work that they can't get to work on their "just works" system?

  10. Re:Wow by SBFCOblivion · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a burger flipper, a tire guy, a mechanic, a professional, or a housewife and I just want the stuff to work.

    Please, seek help.