He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! 508
davidmwilliams writes "Earlier this year the Linux Foundation launched a competition for budding writers, film makers and just general Linux enthusiasts to make their own grassroots advertisement to compete with Apple's highly-successful 'I'm a Mac' series of adverts. The winner has now been announced."
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing quite as exciting as a spoof like two years after the original ads started and about a year after they stopped being cool.
I heard Weird Al was coming up with a parody of the Bee Gees next week...
I love the "Do you know what free means" video! (Score:5, Funny)
I especially love that you need flash to watch it off of youtube.
I'm Linux... (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, nobody get mad at me, I run my hosting business on CentOS and all my computers dual boot to Ubuntu. My six-year old son likes Ubuntu so much that he writes his name in that roundy Ubuntu lettering.
But when I mentally set the stage for this commercial, I imagine a little dwarf coming out and saying, "I'm Linux, do you guys know how to get my wireless card working? I'm having trouble printing. Why can't I play this damn DVD?"
Man, I hope I've got some karma to spare...
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Re:Hello (Score:5, Funny)
And thus you have accomplished more than the average Slashdotter manages in a whole week.
The fall's hot new sitcom (Score:4, Funny)
He's a Mac, He's a PC, [and] We're Linux!
Can three operating systems from three different cultures get along in the same wacky network? Tune in this fall to NBC for _Broken Pipes_, the hilarious new sitcom from those nutty writers behind BSD and VMS!
Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:and I'm FreeBSD (Score:5, Funny)
Linux: Netcraft confirms that FreeBSD is dead.
Economy.
pause
Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Some classical music, crescendo
Linux
Less is more.
Re:I'm Linux... (Score:3, Funny)
He's using the new beta, they ported it to his arm.
Linux is freedom? (Score:3, Funny)
So wait, we are fighting to give the Iraqis Linux. Have we decided on a distro yet?
Re:The fall's hot new sitcom (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IBM Linux ad (Score:2, Funny)
Here's the old Linux ad by IBM. It's pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4
Interesting IBM product...
http://www.ibm.com/open [ibm.com]
To bad it leads to a nasty 404
Linux is everywhere... Linux is nowhere
No deal! (Score:4, Funny)
Since that wouldn't help me make a pretentious linux nerd joke.
Re:Propaganda as Nebulous as Apple's or Microsoft' (Score:2, Funny)
bzflag
bless you
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
"I just want the stuff to work"
If all this stuff "just works" then why do I so regularly get requested by the "just works" customers to make something work that they can't get to work on their "just works" system?
Re:Wow (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a burger flipper, a tire guy, a mechanic, a professional, or a housewife and I just want the stuff to work.
Please, seek help [nih.gov].
Re:and I'm FreeBSD (Score:3, Funny)
[james@rhapsody ~]$ diff /usr/bin/less /bin/more /usr/bin/less and /bin/more differ
Binary files