[ale] linux advertisement during the Braves game tonight

Prasanna Subash subash at skyline.external.hp.com
Wed Oct 24 12:19:25 EDT 2001


I have seen that quite a few times. Infact they had an article about the
veracity of that ad on CNET, with a benchmark, about a month ago.

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> From: esoteric at denali.atlnet.com [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
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> Subject: [ale] linux advertisement during the Braves game tonight
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> Anyone else catch the IBM comercial for Linux servers during the Braves
> game tonight?  First tv commercial for Linux I've seen.
>
> Has a guy running into a building with police, claiming someone's stolen
> all their hardware.  Some Geek walks up and points to a single box at
> the back of this huge empty room.  Says they've moved everything to that
> single box.  The there's some text thrown across the screen saying
> something about Linux servers.
>
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
>
> "...the system (Microsoft passport) carries significant risks to users
> that
> are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
> - David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research
> - http://www.avirubin.com/passport
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