[NMLUG] IBM.com/open

[Don Wilde]

Brian Gonzales wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 08:31, Don Wilde wrote:
> 
>>So... huge marketing push, very well done. Can somebody illuminate for 
>>me what the underpinnings of IBM linux are? Are they partnered with Red 
>>Hat, or nobody?
> 
> 
> Yes, I saw the commercials during yesterday's football games. I wonder
> why IBM selected Eminem to be their spokesman. :-)
> 

Again and again, and again, hmmm?

They want college kids to want Linux, teens to demand Linux from 
colleges (remember MS's efforts to stuff universities with Doze?), to be 
the 'early adopters'. I suspect they'll go back to their 
impress-the-IT-geeks approach soon enough; this was definitely a 
concerted effort to look 'hip' (whatever that word means now!)


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