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- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love the idea, but most people aren't going to have any idea what the ads are for with OpenOffice.org being in such small type. They really should have gotten a decent designer for this.
- Jackolicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, cool idea. The ads suck though.
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The ads would be more effective if the tshirt models had big bouncy titties... and people know wtf openoffice was in the firstplace.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is not advertising that is a jab at MS.
- Wires, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They fail to flaunt the only eye catcher: the software is free. Why clog up a quarter of prime advertising area flaunting your company symbol? Nobody cares if you're from the Moon or Sun. We just want a priceless ride.
- jeff1943, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Openoffice.org is frickin' hot. I switched over ever since I saw it.
- magebomb11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0diggx093840923984
this is new.
open source advertising through mass transit/billboards.
this is definately tech news.
however
OH MY GOD THOSE ARE HORRIBLE ADS!
you ever sit around, smoking pot, and coming up with ad campaigns?
i flush better ad campaigns down the toilet daily. - aussiehuw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg for the ads and the article on IBM vs Sun.
- NastyButler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hurray for OpenOffice.
"The future is Open, is your software?" - Determination, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+ for advertising OpenOffice
- for being completely retardedly done.
dugg all the same. - ZacT1984, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought Apple's HQ was the center of all evil in the universe.
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think OpenOffice is a great product, but....
this is a lame article, and a lame advertisement.
Extra negatives for the "center of all evil in the known universe" quote.
Undugg - gluon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"aka the center of all evil in the known universe"
All credibility lost in the span of only a few letters... amazing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is it the linux philosophy that you have to learn something kick and screaming with lots of pain and suffering to "get th emost out of the linux experience" and they wonder why linux will NEVER be ready for primetime, with things being that difficult can you blame the normal joe for being reluctant to change over?
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why is he a dumbass? All he did was copy the first couple lines from the article to use in the description. If anything, the author that wrote the article is a dumbass.. This "M$ is evil!1!!11" rant is getting old... and I'm a mac user.
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@TurboStar
unless you're using Macros, you lose nothing (and, in fact, gain performance) by disabling Java in OpenOffice. If you are using Macros, I will admit getting Java to run isn't the easiest process, but if you're at all serious about using Linux, it is a good exercise (and at the very least a good tutorial to Linux newbies).
As far as OOo on OS X, I take what I can get on the platform - I accept the fact that their OS X team is lacking developers (though I do hear that OOo will be Aqua and native in 3.0) and use both NeoOffice/J and the RC3 of 2.0 in X11 - they allow me to manipulate documents I create in both Linux and Windows (OpenOffice all around on my computers) - for such a utilitarian use, eye candy isn't essential (though I'd very much enjoy it). - mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes, those ads totally suck. By the time you've seen the by-line on the T-shirts depicted, the bus has probably moved out of view and you've missed the URL. Really LAME ads, you marketroid morons. Nice way to waste money, Sun (who are very good at that, however).
- wireplay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow. Those ads suck. I'm not impressed.
- magebomb11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The future is Open, is your software?"
"Stop giving a bully your lunch money"
"End the Microsoft tax on documents"
..all so much better than theirs...someone email them this page. - Orunitia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For everyone flaming the submitter, he just quoted the first sentence of the article, give him a break.
- mydave, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0og good idea, but don't think that many people will interested in it!
http://www.chasr.org/
http://www.danielrhodes.com
www.toyotaemployeepricing.com - gildude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Truth in advertising version: Open Office may be slow, but our marketing department is retarded.
- hibiscusroto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0openoffice rules!
- WeeklyGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw these ads on buses on my daily commute on 405 the other day. Peaked my interest. Kind of neat!
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OpenOffice needs some work done until it becomes my Microsoft replacement.
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@dcjoedog
I, for one, have never wondered why/wanted Linux to go "Primetime." To periphrase Linus Torvalds (at the inception of Linux) - "it's a kernel for hackers, by hackers." I understand that and respect that, and that's why I don't mind jumping headfirst into the CLI to get something working - you'll never have more power over your machine, and of course wielding that sort of power takes effort. If that means Linux will never go mainstream, then so be it. I'm far more impressed that Linux is at the heart of over 70% of the world's supercomputers (http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/TOP500_Nov2005_Highlights.pdf ) - that is much more important IMHO than being on Joe Blow's eMachine at home.
Sorry for getting off-topic, but I don't like it when I think somebody's put words in my mouth (sorry to dcjoedog if that's not what you meant).
@kidlinux
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with MS Office - except the fact that I can't afford it. Well, I can afford it, but a) I support OSS, and b) I can't justify the cost of MS Office (even Student Edition) when OpenOffice.org, a free product, does everything I need and more (not to mention across all platforms I work on). Yes, it's an industry standard, but it is good to know that the Open Source community, nay, everybody, has an Open Source alternative. - DeeB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Stop giving a bully your lunch money"
... I almost lol'd ... - nox327, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have been seen those for the last couple of weeks in the bus I ride.(yeah I live at the center of "evil", who made that up) And some are pretty funny, but others I just don't get. Yeah and it is usually guys on the pixs, but the girls all have small ***** that you'd think they are men
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Stupid ads.
No one cares about Sun's involvemnet.
www.openoffice.org should be the most prominant thing on the ad.
"End the Microsoft tax on documents"
www.openoffice.org
Or something simple like that. - gbrushtwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is lame. You don't have to marginalize what is a good position by taking a biased stance on the subject..
- Marlon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want the windows shirt
- kidlinux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0News Flash: Open Office sucks.
Fact is, there's nothing wrong with MS Office, in fact, it's a great suite of tools. What sucks are the proprietary formats.
I know we all hate Microsoft, blah, blah, blah, but they make pretty good applications. It's their damn operating system that's a piece of *****. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Genius
- simd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mind you, the first thing your "average" computer user will see when they get to OpenOffice.org is
"OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. "
Geeks unite! - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I prefer Open Office because I use Windows at work and Linux at home. Since OO runs on both platforms I can do my work on the OS of my choosing. It also allows me to keep my documents in MSoffice format so I can share documents with my boss.
OO and MSoffice are running neck-and-neck in their functionality, but the ability to run on different OS's and the ability to share files without hassles make Open Office a much better choice for me.
For those of you who may be wondering what the big deal is about an office suite, I hope I gave you some answers. - crossers, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0ah, it's not interesting.
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - v0lrath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet, I saw this on a bus yesterday. Hooray for living next to Redmond!
- h3adstr0ng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0COOL in redmond too!!!
- 8-bit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0ug I hate oo, abi word is sweeter for portability.
- TurboStar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1While I think a lot of ideas behind OO are pretty great they are failing pretty miserably. Running OO under Windows XP at work is fine but at home I mainly use OSX and Ubuntu both of which require jumping through a stupid amount of hoops to use this software.
Ubuntu only ships with free software (of which Sun's Java is not) so you either run the crippled version or hunt around for other solutions.
OSX has NeoOffice/J but that's the old 1.2 version and it doesn't work on Intel Macs. The new version requires X11 which is fugly and crude.
Windows user already bought in to MS so very few professionals are interested in OOo. I mean, the only reason I'd run Windows would be to ease the pain of interoperability with other users on Windows. MS Office, even with licensing fees, is the obvious path of least resistance here.
General Linux power users (RH, Suse, etc.) are very well off but these OSs tend to come attached to a solid engineer of some kind.
Sadly, MS Office @~$300 still beats OOo @$0 for many users. Depressing. - TCMTCM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"aka the center of all evil in the known universe"
It's the Nintendo headquarters :o - ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Dugg for the awesome description.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0i like theses advertisements...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1more MS bashing...yay?
Let me get back to playing XBOX while I have windows open with Bitcomet on, and IE7 open to look for torrents, heck let me check my email with outlook while I'm at it.
oh but wait, I'm not suppossed to liek MS, oops I forgot you're not cool on the anonymous net unless I hate MS, darn, how could I forget interweb 101 (another thing I hate "interweb") - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"All credibility lost in the span of only a few letters... amazing."
That's subjective. He gains credibility for that those few letters in my book. - Meshyf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I'm a big fan of open office its a great replacement for Microsoft Office.
Free = awesome - boohiss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0YEAH STICK IT TO THE MAN!!11 LOLZ
(enough with the "I hate MS crap already, geez") - jpyun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You're a dumbass, submitter.
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