[CoLoCo] OSX, UBUNTU, or Windows... take your pick... a PC that runs them all...

[David L. Willson]

 > >         To put it bluntly, most Windows users bullshit themselves into
> > >         thinking
> > >         they're superior.  Plain and simple.
> > >
> > > Or they have no idea there is an alternative...  : )
> >
> > Or they listen to Microsoft marking and think the kool-aid is all there
> > is to drink.
> >
> > Today, Microsoft announced that they admit there were some problems with
> > Vista.  Basically, they did not do a good enough job getting the word
> > out of all of Vista's fine qualities (you know like requiring 3x the
> > machine to do the same job with half the reliability... because they
> > care).
> >
> > They also announced that they were going to begin a new advertising
> > campaign to counter Apple's ads (you know the ones... Hi I'm a Mac...).
> > They are going to differentiate themselves based upon what makes Windows
> > superior to Mac... Yep, you guessed it, unlike Mac, Windows is not
> > proprietary, and can run on any type of Windows based machine, not just
> > those made by Apple, so you don't get that vendor lock-in.  Don't you
> > wish you could be this clueless also.
> >
> > Trust me, drink the kool-aid
> >
> > I think the Linux community needs a commercial that competes with these
> > two idiots.  Here is what I propose:
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > A well to do man is sitting in a wing back chair.  He is wearing a suit,
> > with the Wall Street Journal  on the table next to him.  His tie is
> > loosened.  You can tell that he is exhausted, and just watching TV.  One
> > of those Apple commercials comes on, and he chuckles (after all don't we
> > all?) and changed the channel.
> >
> > On the TV is the Microsoft ad that is calling Apple proprietary.  The
> > man starts laughing so hard he is doubling over in pain.
> >
> > Screen fades to black, a dozen or so Linux distro icons come up (Red
> > Hat, Fedora, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, etc).  In the center of all those
> > icons comes the tag line...

> hmm.... interesting. I like the idea of someone viewing both commercials and
> laughing. I'd laugh just watching someone laugh at them.
> 
> It would be nice to see a Linux commercial that is as creative and appealing
> as the mac commercials, yet informative. I'd like to see canonical try and
> fund a commercial. But, i doubt that will happen, so I'd be just happy to
> see any Linux commercial even if community created and put on youtube. I
> guess there are a few on youtube already, but most don't seem that good.

There are a bunch on Youtube, some of which have seen TV air-time.  Search for "IBM
Linux commercial" or "Novell Linux commercial".  IBM has two series'.  One called "the
Prodigy" and another that's about an IT teams struggles.  The latter series is not
strictly Linux.  Novell has at least two series'.  One is a spin-off of the Mac/PC
commercials, where a pretty redhead chimes in with, "I'm Linux."  Damn.  The other is
"your Linux is ready".  There are lots of fan "commercials", too.  Search for "Mac PC
Linux upgrades" and you'll find my favorite crude gut-buster.  There are also a bunch of
demos of Compiz Fusion and Beryl, and training vids, and ...  Lots of things.  Youtube
is rich with old Linux commercials and fun and educational Linux video.