[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Ringo Kamens]

Here are a few to get ideas from also:
http://showusthecode.com/alternatives.htm

In Solidarity,
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 4/28/07, Sunnz <sunnzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> You all at least heard about the Get a Mac ad campaign from Apple right?
>
> Video works quite well at presenting information, (whether if they
> holds truth is another story.), and IMHO there is a lack of free
> software video. All the current free software activities are good per
> se, but the general public needs to know what we are talking about,
> and lots of them may not have the time, or lack of attention span to
> read through the stuff on badvista.
>
> So, here's my idea for an ad video, just very briefly:
>
> =======================================
> Once upon a time, there was an ordinary family, they first seem to be
> doing to ordinary stuff, the son goes to school everyday, their
> parents work at day.
>
> One day, Big Brother(M$) steps in, and goes out of his way to command
> how the family should work, makes the craziest decisions one can
> imagine and gets paid by the family for doing it. The family doesn't
> like it, but yet relies on it, and simply have to obey everything BB
> says.
>
> Later on, when the kid in the family reach his teens, he met a
> beautiful girl (Mac), and starts to rebel against the Big Brother, and
> the parents was relieved from having to take orders from Big Brother
> and are happy. The down side is, the girl demands a lot of the family
> as well, although not just precisely dictating how everything should
> work, she caused the boy into an unhealthy state.
>
> Finally, they met a wisdom old man (GNU), and was free from all the
> restrictive things, and was free forever.
> =======================================
>
> Like I said, just a very brief idea... but if you think it has
> potential, feel free to add details, tweak it, play around with it....
>
> i think it would be beneficial if some kind of video can
> metaphorically explain to the general public, and these days with the
> high bandwidth internet and stream video, it isn't so hard to
> distribute the video, especially if it is creative and entertaining,
> and lots of people has done it like Apple, Sun Microsystems, and even
> Google, so yea.
>
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>
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