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| DATE | 2003-09-05 |
| FROM | Kenneth Dombrowski
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] IBM TO KICK OFF WITH LINUX PLAY
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On 03-09-05 18:43 +0100, Inker, Evan wrote:
> September 5, 2003 -- The Giants won't be the only ones trying to gain
> yardage on Sunday's NFL kickoff.
> During commercial breaks, IBM plans to blitz Microsoft.
>
> IBM will unveil a surreal, 90-second advertisement touting the operating
> system Linux, in hopes of catapulting the geek favorite into the public's
> consciousness.
it's almost enough to entice me into watching football
> The ad, which features luminaries from Muhammad Ali to Penny Marshall, takes
> aim at the market leader, Microsoft's Windows.
>
> "Linux began as this sort-of hippie thing, so it's interesting that IBM is
> running up the pirate flag," said Brian Doyle, a company spokesman.
what an unfortunate sentence
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