Ideas
Parody of the Mac 'Get a Mac' ads. Features Mark Shuttleworth
Idea 1
<rms + linus standing in front of white screen> rms: Hello, I'm a free-as-in-freedom GNU box Linus: Hi, I'm a fun filled, high powered, multimedia capable Ubuntu Linux Box. And thanks to hardware accelerated GUI drawing enabled by my propertariy NVida graphics card drivers, my desktop spins! rms: by using me, you are ensuring that you will never be locked into properitary... Linus: Thanks to cedega, you can play awesome games like Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft... rms: Hold on. Are you suggesting that I can't have fun? Linus: Yes rms: Bullshit Linus: Okay, well take these snaps of the OScon. Using F-Spot, written in mono the open source implementation of .net, I can upload them to Flickr and then send the URL to my friends on MSN through Kopete! rms: So? I can post the error logs of my sftp server to usenet and then my gnu buddies can examine the hex headers of the jpeg photos! Linus: I can make my desktop into a cube! It's like having four dekstops! rms: I have six namespaces Linus: you still use the CLI? rms: <sulking> bash is still cool...and free-as-freedom
Idea 2
esr: Hi, I'm open source rms: Hi, I'm free software esr: You know, we're quite similar after all. We use the same tools, the same software, that sort of thing. rms: but I am more free. esr: really? There are hundreds of open source linux distro, but only about seven 'free' gnu/linux distro. Also, don't you insist that everyone use free software, or all sorts of hell will rain down on them? rms: it will esr: open source wants you to use it because it's better. free software wants you to use it to pump your ego rms: stfu }}