Calm, Rational Penguinistas are Called For!

[elfs]

Okay, this is for the Puget Sound Penguinistas. I need a Linux guru who can talk business, stat. John Moe, the host of KUOW's tech show The Works, recently did a show on "alternatives to Microsoft"; the show was entirely about Apple and why it's so great.

I asked him why didn't include Linux in the list of alternatives, since arguably it powers more servers and nearly as many desktops. (Nevermind that the core of Mac OS X is BSD... we won't discuss that.) He said he'd like to do one, but he needed someone who could talk Linux business rationally. He said his opening show was about "the two BIG companies"-- what, like the aggregate Linux market doesn't show up well compared to iTunes?

Anyway, anyone out there want to put forth a proposal for what we could discuss with John Moe?

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was referring to the fact that Chevrolet ran an ad during the superbowl right after the Linux ad. The Chevy ad showed a whole bunch of kids with soap in their mouths; apparently, the gimmick is that they were so surprised when they saw the new Chevy they couldn't restrain themselves from shouting "Holy Shit!"

Anyway, one of the kids in the ad was the exact same kid they use to represent "Linux". It blew my suspension of disbelief.

And I thought most of the kids were saying "Holy shit!" because they were dismayed at the idea of having to get driven to school in such an ugly hunk of junk.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Oh...

::slinks back into hippieland, where the TV is the screen no-one watches, and ugly hunks of junk are an apt description of the yard, next door::