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Re: [News] Ubuntu Linux Has Appeal and Cost Advantages, But Marketing (Perception) a Deficiency

  • Subject: Re: [News] Ubuntu Linux Has Appeal and Cost Advantages, But Marketing (Perception) a Deficiency
  • From: JeffM <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:55:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>Ubuntu: Marketing Frustrations
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| If we can’t have a corporate sponsor such as Canonical, IBM,
>|Intel, Google, Linux Foundation paying for adverts, then perhaps
>|it’s time we started doing something as a community.
>|I’m not talking about the nascar 500 debarkle,

1) This guy should learn how to use his spellchecker:
http://google.com/search?q=define:debacle

2) He should check his facts just slightly.
It wasn't NASCAR; it was the Indy 500:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85530/index.html

Holding up organizations that have been off M$ all of this century
seems like the way to demonstrate that it isn't difficult.
The ones I know are:
Burlington Coat Factory
Ernie Ball, Inc.
City of Largo, Florida

Am I missing some high-profile exemplars from 1999-2000?

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