Re: New York Times advertisement for Ubuntu

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 11/5/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> If we could get more donations and a larger ad campaign, I say "sure". 
>  I was just hoping to ride on the pioneering efforts of companies like 
> Dell, Asus, Everex, and various others who chose Ubuntu as their 
> Desktop distribution of choice for some reason or another.  I am not 
> biased toward a 100% Ubuntu ad, as I have used various flavors of 
> Linux over the years including Gentoo/RH/Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake/Debian 
> and some other obscure distros no one remembers.  Either way, the 
> point of the ad was to give a URL as say to normal Americans -- "hey, 
> try this it.  We think it's cool and so do 10 million other people 
> around the world".  You know, something along those lines. 
> 
> Or maybe we could do a more interesting angle.  "Google, Youtube, 
> Ebay, and Amazon all use Linux.  Now bring the power of their systems 
> into your home with the Ubuntu Linux Operating System."