LinuxPlanet: The StartX Files: Peace, Love, and Linux? My Foot!

"I enjoy a good ad campaign as much as the next fellow, as I crave being seduced by the ad-meisters of Madison Avenue like most other red-blooded Americans. My current favorite TV ad, for example, is for a certain German car that comes plummeting down out of a tree after being inexplicably stuck there. Good slapstick comedy--gets me every time."

"So does inadvertent irony, which is why I started laughing very loudly when I saw the latest IBM ad for Linux."

"Peace, Love, and Linux? Are they kidding?"

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