Slate on Linux

Filed under Politics by adam | January 27, 2004 | 3397 hits | 2 comments

Slate · is running this entertaining and mildly insightful analysis · of the recent television advertisments by IBM promoting Linux · (I’d normally say GNU/Linux, but the ads just say “Linux”). If you haven’t seen the ads, check them out. Then read the commentary.

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UG Jan 28

Will Linux be the springboard for world peace and understanding, or will it be crushed beneath the heels of greedy modern-day industrialists whose narrow view of progress focuses only on their own coffers? I don’t know…but I think that kid in the commercial does.
Long Jan 28

I don’t know…but I think that kid in the commercial does.
The kid doesn’t know anything. He is a deaf mute who has a Gump-like knack for being in all the right places at the right time. He is not the messiah.