You can tell things are tough when all it takes is a Highway 101 billboard to elevate people’s adrenaline levels. And that, apparently, is what an Ubuntu Linux billboard has done.
From SJVN’s Linux-Watch:
The above billboard, and another just like it, were spotted by our roving reporter has he drove between Palo Alto and San Francisco on the 101 freeway earlier this week. We can’t help wondering: is it something in the water supply here in Silicon Valley? Or, is it the upcoming LinuxWorld conference that sets up shop in San Francisco next week?
Or, is it an indication that immense amounts of marketing crack are being done somewhere? Sure, Ubuntu is “increasingly popular” — for people who use Linux as a desktop. But that’s like saying that death is increasingly popular with the living — it’s a force of inevitability, given how awful most desktop Linux distros are, and how little most Linux players care about the desktop market.
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You can tell things are tough when all it takes is a Highway 101 billboard to elevate people’s adrenaline levels. And that, apparently, is what an Ubuntu Linux billboard has done.
From SJVN’s Linux-Watch:
The above billboard, and another just like it, were spotted by our roving reporter has he drove between Palo Alto and San Francisco on the 101 freeway earlier this week. We can’t help wondering: is it something in the water supply here in Silicon Valley? Or, is it the upcoming LinuxWorld conference that sets up shop in San Francisco next week?
Or, is it an indication that immense amounts of marketing crack are being done somewhere? Sure, Ubuntu is “increasingly popular” — for people who use Linux as a desktop. But that’s like saying that death is increasingly popular with the living — it’s a force of inevitability, given how awful most desktop Linux distros are, and how little most Linux players care about the desktop market.
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on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 11:37 am and is filed under Open Source, dot-communism.
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