Rabenstrange in Love
I saw an add on a bus today that had me cheering. It showed a guy in a t shirt with the phrase "Stop Giving a bully your lunch money. / openoffice.org".
I am a BIG fan of Open Office and other free open source software. I recommend that those of you who don't have it, Get Open Office Now. It is an absolutely free Microsoft Office equivalent. It includes all of the major features except the multi-hundred dollar price tag.
Apprently Sun Microsystems, the main sponsors of the Open Office project have bought up all the advertising space on the busses that service Redmond (For you non-Washingtonians, Redmond is a suburb of Seattle and the world home of Microsoft.) to ridicule the company and its overpriced software.
They have several slogans including:
Pick a vendor, any vendor.
We do windows too.
Compatible with closed, overpriced, memory hogging software.
By the People, For the people.
Now I want to find out where I can buy the shirts.
The add I actually saw was the one pictured above showing a maroon shirt but it was actually in an exterior format like the one below instead of the interior one like the picture. Hopefully, that wasn't too opaque.
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Haha... I convinced my entire Eng 201 group to use Open Office. Then we proceded to talk about the awesomeness of Google.
The funny thing was they didn't know anything about computers... and they were the ones to bring up the subject.
Hmmm...may have to tell my youth pastor about this. He's always ranting about Microsoft.
I must plead guilty to the charge of using Microsoft's technology, but it's my Dad who buys it and anyway...I like XP too much to give it up!
Cool ads though. Defenitely like the company's sense of style.
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