Re: [TCLUG:19662] Linux ad

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:
> 
> > Haven't seen this anywhere on TV yet..
> >
> > ftp://ftp.k-lug.com/pub/archive/coolstuff/ibm-linux.avi
> 
> Hey, the video looked great on my fast connection at work, but I don't
> have a sound card in that machine.  What'd Mr. Brooks say?  Is this a real
> ad, or just something hacked?

It's a real ad, though I dunno if it'll ever go on the teevee.. (there's
another copy on IBM's site:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/audio/ibm_linux-02.avi 
Different file name, same file).

Anyway, lemme try to jot this down..

"1991, Helsinki:  A 21 year-old student named Linus Torvalds writes a
new computer operating system.  He calls it `Linux', then does something
revolutionary -- he gives it away, free, over the Internet.  The powers
that be dismiss him as an eccentric -- a freak -- but everywhere coders
and free thinkers embrace Linux, improve, and refine it.  Now the forces
of openness have a powerful and unexpected new ally."

eesh, I'd never make it as a stenographer... :-p

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