[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Jacob Maynard]

That's a very interesting spin on it. Sure, have him be the GNU. We could
ask Linus what he thinks on the matter. I doubt he'll be too bothered.

Legalities were what I was worried about. But it has to be evident what
each symbol represents.

Or, maybe we cut the other symbols, Windows and Mac, and just focus on the
little GNU shaping Tux and taking him to whole new worlds with references
to productivity, games, multimedia, and development. Would that be better?
Less legalities, and then we don't give any unintentional focus on Windows
or Mac.

And who here can animate? I can't.

Jacob

>
> How about making the little charter be the GNU? It's fair enough to have a
> GNU
> shaping Tux into whatever and flying around in it... I'd think so anyway.
> Linus might not... or might be OK with it, hard to say.
>
> By the way all those logos are owned by the respective owner, so some
> thought
> would need to be put into obtaining permission or working it in such a way
> as
> to not run afoul of the ever present attorneys. Legal can be a B...
> Problem.
>
> Don.
> **********************
>  On Sunday 29 April 2007 01:55 pm, Jacob Maynard wrote:
> 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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