Freespire's Google ads: "What is Ubuntu Missing?"

[Jan Vancura]

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Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:39:02AM +1000, Melissa Draper said:
>> If Pepsi was to launch a campaign "Is Coca-Cola missing stuff?", do you
>> think it would be ethical? No? My point exactly. What freespire has
> 
> I'd say absolutely ethical, yes, unless they lied about Coca-Cola.  You
> could argue it'd be a trademark violation, but I don't think you'd win.
> 
> 
> 

In some countries, including mine, comparative advertising is illegal.
You are only allowed to compare statistically ("Pepsi has the best fizz
of all the soft drinks" (fine print: according to Pepsi Magazine (tm))).

Because of this, we had, for example, a car commercial, where some
twenty cars covered with white cloth race down a long road (mind you, it
was obviously American or similar, so such rules have to be/had to have
been present there too) - until finally the one car that beat the
uniform mass by leaps and bounds was revealed to be the advertised brand.

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