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"The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 23rd, 2004

Has anyone seen the IBM commercial titiled, "The Future is Open"? When the commercial first started, I was thinking that it was cool. As I realized what the commercial was about, I felt a little offended :!:.

I emplore all of you go and watch the commercial.

Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/do...nd/tvspot.html

Scroll down and find "The Future is Open" commercial and view it in your favorite media player.

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 24th, 2004

Why would you feel offended? Is it because it is about linux?

http://dsl.org/cookbook/
http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/cats/commands_shells.html

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 24th, 2004

Well, honestly... yeah. Linux is nice, I'm even posting from it right now, but its not our savior. I don't know.. I'm just really offended.

Maybe beacuse I use things that compare to Linux, and sometimes exceed Linux's abilities.

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 24th, 2004

perhaps u feel offended because u see how linux is growing and u
wish linux to grow or move in another direction

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 25th, 2004

Well, for heaven's sake TekMaven, don't be coy, what do you mean?

Of course, I think Linux IS our savior, but for reasons other than technical ones. It's forcing Microsoft to be competative rather than anticompetative. AS I am learning RedHat, I also consider Linux to be my personal savior... along with Jesus Christ.

With SCO lobbying congress about the Linux Threat to American business, the IBM commercial is the perfect antiFUD. It made me feel good all over.

Finally, I would like to remind you that the tag line wasn't "The Future is Linux". It was "The Future is Open". Do you really disagree with that?

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 29th, 2004

It's safe to say he knows not since there is no reply.

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Re: "The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial

Jan 29th, 2004

Linux is not our Saviour, its another N/OS that does somthings better than others, but remeber there is also UNIX FREEBSD and MacOS which are all NOT windows.

Linux has its up sides and its down sides, and if anyone of you tell me that linux is just better than windows your just a zelot