Tux 500

[mindwave at cfl.rr.com]

Having been to several 'indy' events I think they MAY be aiming at the 'elietst' crowd and the larger corporate owners.
although i cant think of a single company that sponsored a car BEFORE it had the worlds ear. Home Depot, Lowes, STP etc.
It is ALSO a quick way to generate LOTS of cash. most sponsors in that league would think nothing of throwing half a mil in advertising to a race team, unfortunately they are appealing to a community of millions of individuals on the HOPE that several hundred thousand will toss in a dollar.
Could be worse, they could be tempting NASCAR. Can you imagine Cooter and Skeeter the 1st time they have to CHMOD?
 
OY!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:16 pm 
Subject: Re: Tux 500 
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com> 

> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 13:36 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote: 
> > The only way Linux will ever become a worthy adversary to MS 
> > on the desktop is when the Linux community as a whole has 
> > an open mind about doing things that apparently most Linux 
> > users think are stupid. 
> 
> Ok, there's a joke to made about that... Hmm. To be on a par 
> with MS, 
> we've got to do just as stupid things as Windows does. 
> 
> As it stands, Linux is a good alternative. It does what it does. 
> It'savailable for use by all those interested in using it. And 
> it's not 
> forced upon you, unlike Windows. 
> 
> Yes, marketing works, but you do have to pitch to the right 
> market. Is 
> car racing full of computing enthusiasts, or car enthusiasts? 
> Linux is 
> something for computing enthusiasts, not just computer users. Windows 
> and MacOS is for them. There's little point in being a clone of them. 
> Where's the benefit. You're no-longer an alternative. 
> 
> -- 
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