I will try to video capture these commercials as there is actually 4 of them
all with a Linux twist.
Another one talking about security in a basketball game shows Tux in the
video and a uniform showing Linux
on the last player in the review on the commercial.
Thanks
Bill Preece
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin (Roblimo) Miller <robin@roblimo.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: [SLUG] IBM directly boosts Linux
>While watching Pats walk over Steelers, saw new IBM "basketball"
>commercial featuring "Linux, the new guy on the team who is going to
>make all of you look better." Cut to executive suite, where one suit
>gloats that Linux cost "peanuts," other asks why he plays so cheap,
>first suit says, "because he loves the game."
>
>Can't ask for a better plug than that.
>
>Too bad that, as editor of Linux.com, I'm going to get lots of really
>stupid questions from AOL users because of this ad, but answering them
>is (sigh) part of my job.
>
>- Robin
>
>
>
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