[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Don Hensley]

Well Jacob, when you said "I'm not much of a publicist." I had to laugh a bit. 

Maybe not, but you would make a great screenwriter. I could see your ad in my 
head as I read the description.

There was one thing though. Tux is the Linux mascot, OK, but where do we get 
the GNU in there?
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 On Sunday 29 April 2007 01:21 pm, Jacob Maynard wrote:
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

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