[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Jacob Maynard]

I disagree with keeping an ad the same. It needs to be new. It needs to be
fresh. If we just copy the Mac commercials, people are going to wonder how
serious we really are. Of course, we don't have to have one "series" of
commercials. It could be just individual ones.

One I just thought of could go like this:

We could have a little character walking through a room. He comes across
the Windows logo first. He pushes the logo, and it moves a little bit,
then he pushes it in, and it clicks. The logo lights up a little, kind of
like a hotel vacancy sign.

Then, he could walk to the Mac logo. He pushes it, and it moves a little,
too. He clicks it, and it also lights up, just the same as the Windows
logo.

Then he comes to Tux. He pushes that logo, and he notices that it is
pliable. He thinks for a second, and then shapes Tux into an airplane. He
smiles and flies through a little world. Then he molds it into a jukebox
and starts dancing to the music. Then he molds it into a computer. The
camera whirls around him and the computer once, and zooms into the
computer monitor that has Tux inside of it. Some sort of moto or quote or
something should fade in underneath Tux, and then it says, "Linux." Of
course, we should have a link to a webpage there, too.

It was a thought. I'm not much of a publicist.

But I would disagree with you a little that Mac is better than Vista. Mac
may not have the freedom of GNU/Linux, but it is not the terrible dictator
that Vista is. And now, since OS X was based on Unix, it's even closer to
GNU/Linux than ever before. Sure, it has some proprietary software in it,
but it can run the FLOSS and GPL software that we support so much. That's
my opinion.

Jacob

>> 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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