In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
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on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:45:48 -0400
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> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:49:07 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Google 'UK's top consumer brand'
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>>>| Google also topped a poll of "superbrands" as judged by professionals
>>> earlier
>>>| this year.
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>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7516343.stm
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>> Big stink'n deal. Microsoft *finally* lost the #1 spot one time and is
>> listed as being the #2 "superbrand" out there. It's hardly that Microsoft
>> hate and resentment you keep blabbering about.
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> Where is Linux on the list?
>
Where should it be? Linux is not a company, nor is it in
the top 500. Even Ubuntu doesn't show up on this list;
nor does RedHat, Firefox, Debian, or SuSE, or for that
matter, Windows proper.
http://www.superbrands.uk.com/about/selectionProcess.php
For its part IBM hit #58, between Black & Decker and Nintendo;
Dell is at #63 sandwiched between London Eye and Hornby;
Hewlett-Packard is at #73 sandwiched between Thomas Cook
and Oxford University Press; Yahoo! is at #75 with Audi
just below it.
For some odd reason Wembley Stadium is at #87; I would
have thought it higher than that (though don't follow
European football). Intel is at #99, between PG Tips and
Harvey Nichols.
Adobe has a minor problem; Flash, like Linux, is also
linked to a cleaning product. Flash is #135 in the list;
Macromedia did not make the list, though Adobe comes in
at #278. Roesch (the manufacturers of a washing powder
named Linux) also didn't make the list.
For its part AOL actually did make the list, barely;
it's at #466.
Apart from Google, the highest ranking brand that is
apparently related to Linux might be Sony (#10) or Lego
(#16), and both appear incidental; the PS3 is *not*
designed to run Linux (though there are suggestions one
can install Linux thereon), nor is Lego Mindstorm(tm),
though a HOWTO for the latter is available that suggests
the remote development environment usually runs on Windows,
and furthermore requires a file that is part of the MS
Windows installation CD. But the erstwhile Mindstorm
hacker running on Linux should be able to do a few things.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Lego/index.html
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