Homegrown Linux/FOSS Adverts

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:03:08AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> on a related note, hiring hugely visible billboards have been
> suggested, and I think that's a SUPER idea !
> the first one I'd like to see goes like this;
> 
>  ====================
>         THIS PENGUIN
>            .-"""-.
>           '       \
>          |,.  ,-.  |
>          |()L( ()| |
>          |,'  `".| |
>          |.___.',| `
>         .j `--"' `  `.
>        / '        '   \
>       / /          `   `.
>      / /            `    .
>     / /              l   |
>    . ,               |   |
>    ,"`.             .|   |
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> |       `.`,        |      `.
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> |__        |--""___|      ,-'
>   `"--...,+""""   `._,.-'
> 
> POWERS THE INTERNET
> ====================
> simple, intriguing and undeniable, this giant poster will have the
> entire city talking about linux and explaining to each other that,
> yes, in fact, the majority of the worlds servers are penguin powered.
> Many conversations will then turn to "have you SEEN the new linux
> desktops ?..." and the very idea that our precious internet depends on
> a cute (if gigantic) penguin will have many ready to defend it against
> inevitable media attacks. I bet if we crystallized this goal (to rent
> a billboard next to the the Gardener for a month) the community could
> mobilize the funding required.

I think to be much closer to the truth you would need a BSD deamon next
to tux since I think combined they cover a very large amount of the
internet servers.  Of course I know some ISPs run Solaris on sun
hardware, and of course there is all the cisco and juniper, etc, gear
too. :)

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