reverendted.wordpress.com — What with the popularity of the ?Get a Mac? campaign, the inevitable spoofs are numerous. However, Apple?s advertising agency has created a veritable fortress of metaphor with these advertisements. The archetypes seem so accurate that it?s hard to get past the inherent truthiness of the original commercials. Most spoof attempts that I have seen hav
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fanboydcsMar 20, 2007
halik, exactly, yet in the real world, I am a unix admin, and I still enjoy tinkering.I do view my linux machine as a tool for what I like to get done.And why was my post modded down? I am a geek, if I wanted a machine that "just worked" I wouldn't have posted that...
Closed AccountMar 20, 2007
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wooteryMar 21, 2007
@wikiThat is an advert, albeit one for free software.Blocked.Not to mention all the bulls**t."web browser of choice". No. That would be IE."programming language for the Internet". What?
Closed AccountMar 22, 2007
It will be sad to see after both Mac and Windows spending so much money on advertising, Linux is going to be the standard in homes and businesses. It's just a matter of time.
Closed AccountMar 22, 2007
@ihaveplans I think our UK friends might disagree with you there.
godd4242Mar 22, 2007
Wanna know how Linux in general will get ahead?Corporate sponsorship, as in some company likes the idea of FOSS and adopts it.Or secondly, Linux gets a rich sponsor who runs this ad (well not this one exactly, maybe a little more witty ;_;) during the superbowl.Now if only I had 30 million dollars, I'd be that sponsor :3
godd4242Mar 22, 2007
@fotbrNot quite no.
brainxsMay 15, 2007
yeah, it is quite a nice idea to compare with linux!
dudley9May 25, 2008
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