[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Sunnz]

Well I think another spoof isn't exactly the best thing. Sure, there
will watch it for entertainment, but when there is spoofs of spoofs of
spoofs, people won't take this particular seriously and will be a
waste effort to promo free software.

And I don't entirely agree that Macs are as bad as Microsoft. Yes they
have quite a lot of propriety software running on top of the system
but at least they have the base of the operating system open. And they
use open standards a lot more than Microsoft.

Anyway if this ad were to go with the original plot then the kid would
eventually be "saved" by GNU anyway, so defaulting GNU/Linux as the
solution.

And I don't think it is good to push free distros like gNewSense to
Windows switchers... the world is still flooded with closed standards
which people may be still dependent on, there needs to be a somewhat
"smooth" transition, where people start to use free software based
systems, then move their closed standards to more open standards, then
finally switch to a totally free environment.

What I mostly meant by open and close standards are file formats.

2007/4/29, Koh Choon Lin <open07 at gmail.com>:
> > I suggest that we keep Mac out of it. Our focus is against Vista. I know
> > that the FSF stands behind GNU/Linux, but our aim is against Vista,
> > specifically. Even Mac would be better than Vista. Is that agreeable?
>
> I strongly disagree that Mac is better than Vista, both are equally
> proprietary that denies their users basic freedoms. Switching would
> just mean serving a different master. Thus, including Mac would
> highlight to the public that it is as bad as Vista. We do not want
> people to abandon Vista just to see them switching to Mac, do we?
>
> Anyway, if we are going to produce a spoof, I suggest sticking to the
> original theme of the "Mac" advertisement since they are already
> famous. A cast of 2 men and 1 woman a la Novell spoofs works wonder
> since the viewers could immediately see the difference.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Koh Choon Lin
> Singapore GNU Group
>
> singapore.gnu.googlepages.com
>
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