[Lancaster] I am a PC

[Joseph Le Brech]

A promotional video created by the community would be good. something similar to blender's orange and peach projects.
 
> From: kenhough at btinternet.com
> To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:16:27 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] I am a PC
> 
> On Sunday 22 February 2009 21:38:45 Rik Boland wrote:
> > Hi boys
> >
> > My min been triggered by reading this month Linux Format (bought on
> > recommendation of group). 
> >
> > There an article that read about the I am a PC advert advertised by
> > Microsoft, who am I to say that they can't advertise but does this
> > commercial kinda smack you in the head to be ethically wrong as it suggest
> > PC = Microsoft. 
> 
> So what's new? Microsoft have been doing this for years.
> 
> If there were vast funds that could be used to advertise the advantages of 
> Linux, I'm sure the community could come up with more believable and useful 
> themes. But there aren't, so we can't.
> 
> It seems to me that Microsoft's recent advertising of Vista, etc has been 
> doing the job for us. :-)
> 
> 
> > If so who do we write to (advertisement standers) to complain of misguided
> > information?
> 
> 
> You could, but personally, I wouldn't loose too much sleep over it.
> 
> 
> 
> Ken hough
> 
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