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Originally posted by Doctor V:
Here in Japan, I saw a nice commercial yesterday. It showed a basketball game, with one team having words like downtime, crashes, security holes, and such written on their jerseys, and the other team had Linux written on theirs. The mascot was a Penguin too. The Linux team dominated on the court. I wonder if this commercial is in other countrys too.
Yo, it's so weird. I saw a comercial about a basketball team and Linux too. But it was for IBM. I almost thought it was the same one. Anyway, in my flavor, the basketball coach introduces the new player Linux to the team.
"Team, this is you're new teamate, Linux", says the coach.
Well the team get's all glad to meet him and all. And then what followes is a sequence of shots of "Linux" making great plays and outperforming all the other guys.
Then the General Manager calls in the head coach.
"Coach," the GM says, "How is that new player Linux doing?"
"He's doing great", says the coach.
"Well, what are we payin' him?"
The coach, very subtly, blows off all his concern, "Peanuts, sir"
The GM is inquisitive, "Coach, why would anybody that good play for so little?"
This is followed by a slight pause, to which the coach replies definitivly, "He loves the game."
Athought I don't generally like big buisness such as IBM, I thought this comercial was great, everyone that likes linux on this forum should see it. Anyway, even if I did like IBM, it's better than Microsoft, right? M$ by comparison would be like Mo Vaugn, that guy that was signed to the Mets for a ridiculously high paycheck, and then does nothing. (Please, no flames for being a met's fan, I'm not a front runner)
[ June 10, 2002: Message edited by: iustitia ]