[CLUE-Talk] IBM ad

[Jef Barnhart]

MUCHO LUCHO
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Jef

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 22:15, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:42, Jef Barnhart wrote:
> > There is an HTML transcript on the commercial also. 
> 
> Glad to see it made available for the non-sportos in the audience. 
> 
> Just my 2 cents, though... is that commercial going to do Linux any
> good? It had this kind of annoying quasi-Apple feel to it, and it didn't
> really seem geared to the sports-watching crowd at all. 
> 
> Frankly, I'd have gone with something a little more low-brow, like a
> computer-animated Tux bitch-slapping a Bill Gates lookalike as he's
> trying to steal people's wallets or something like that. The
> artsy-fartsy approach isn't going to go far with the average viewer. 
> 
> Am I wrong? Does anybody think this was a good approach to marketing
> Linux?
> 
> Zonker
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