[ale] linux advertisement during the Braves game tonight

[jhubbs at telocity.com]

I saw the ad on ST: Enterprise last night.  I downloaded an MPEG of the Avery Brooks IBM ad - in which Cmdr. Sisko intones about Linus and how "he did something revolutionary - he gave it away, on the Internet" - but I never saw it on TV.

On Wed, 24 October 2001, "Prasanna Subash" wrote:

> 
> I have seen that quite a few times. Infact they had an article about the
> veracity of that ad on CNET, with a benchmark, about a month ago.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: esoteric at denali.atlnet.com [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 10:36 PM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] linux advertisement during the Braves game tonight
> >
> >
> > Anyone else catch the IBM comercial for Linux servers during the Braves
> > game tonight?  First tv commercial for Linux I've seen.
> >
> > Has a guy running into a building with police, claiming someone's stolen
> > all their hardware.  Some Geek walks up and points to a single box at
> > the back of this huge empty room.  Says they've moved everything to that
> > single box.  The there's some text thrown across the screen saying
> > something about Linux servers.
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey        esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > "...the system (Microsoft passport) carries significant risks to users
> > that
> > are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
> > - David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research
> > - http://www.avirubin.com/passport
> >
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