[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Jacob Maynard]

This is where I ran into the problem of writing it out. I know we're
including the GNU. I just don't know where. If you have two different
icons, people may get confused. That's what I worry about.

Maybe if our little "moto" at the bottom read, "Powered by GNU software,"
and had the GNU on there next to that saying, that would be okay? I don't
know. I just think that whatever idea that we had, it needs to be fresh.
Nothing copied.

Jacob

>
> 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?
>  ************************************
>  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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