It's on Slashdot now too. The ibm.com/open site is up too, with the commercial.
This would be a good thing to be showing on laptops at the booth. (After all, I will be owning IBM stock soon. :-) This is a clear sign that GNU and Linux have won. Mike On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:09:02AM -0700, Matthew J. Probst wrote: > Looks like this ad is receiving some mainstream press coverage: > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=13&u=/nm/media_ibm_advertising_dc > > > -matt > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > > Something to look forward to. :-) > > > > During the US Open and the first Sunday NFL season game on Sept. 7, > > IBM will go primetime with a unique 90-second TV commercial > > highlighting IBM's strategic choice of Linux as a pillar of its > > open-standards strategy for e-business on demand. > > > > Besides Ali and Marshall, the celebrities in the ad are: > > > > Henry Lewis Gates, Harvard University professor, author and leader in > > the African American community. > > > > John Wooden, former UCLA Bruins basketball coach who led his team to > > ten NCAA championships. > > > > Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind" and economist. > > > > They each in turn instruct a young boy, the ``Prodigy'', who acts as a > > metaphor for Linux. It was shown at LinuxWorld, soliciting quite an > > applause from the audience. At this point, IBM employees can see it > > over the intranet, but I don't think we're allowed to redistribute it > > :-(. In any case, here is the future location of the public site > > (nothing of note is there yet): > > > > ibm.com/open > > > > There is mention of ``Quicktime for Linux'' at this site. Don't ask > > me what that's all about. Just use MPlayer. :-) > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- > > Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | > > | > > What's another word for synonym? | > > ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- > > GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | | What's another word for synonym? | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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