[AktiviX] Linux ad

[Robin Green]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:24:01PM -0500, Pi wrote:
> <br><br>So I'm lying on the couch, half asleep, wracked with flu, watching the Bush protests in London on CNN and the Michael Jackson hullaballoo and what do I see (on CNN, of all places,) but an advertisement for Linux?  <br><br>Little blue eyed blonde haired kidlet learning about "community" from a plethora of archetypal teachers - every metaphysical stereotype from Mandella to Marx with a final statement of: Linux.  The Future is Open.  <br><br>My new age mummy said something about it being very much like the cult-ish Course in Miracles and I grumbled something about the matrix and tried to fall back asleep.<br><br>I've tried to catch it again on CNN to no avail, and I haven't been able to find it on the net, does anyone know whether or not this was actually just a product of my fevered imagination?<br><br>Love from the great white north,<br>Pi<br>

No, it's not a pigment of your imagination, it's an IBM ad.
It was shown at Activix in fact. I remember, 'cos I thought,
"wow, that's inspiring".
-- 
Robin

"it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves,
something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago..."
 - Howard Strauss writing in Syllabus magazine
  http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8460