[ Thanks to Danijel Orsolic for this
link. ]
“Ken Starks and Bob Moore are trying to raise money to put the
GNU/Linux advertisement on one of the cars that will be
participating in the biggest racing event on the planet,
Indianapolis 500. The project is known as ‘Tux500’ and is described
as a ‘Community Powered Linux Marketing Program.’ The motivation
behind the project is to put the GNU/Linux brand before the eyes of
millions of people both at the event and around the world who will
be watching the transmission, so that they may start asking about
that penguin, asking what is this “Linux” thing and consequently
letting us tell them that they have a choice, that they don’t have
to depend on Microsoft anymore for their computing activities.“However the project has been at least slightly controversial.
Even if we set aside the rather ludicrous attempt at discrediting
Ken and Bob coming from pretty much only one person in the
community, there are signs that not everyone or at least not enough
people really believe in this project as a positive thing, or are
at the very least sitting on the sidelines…”
[Editor’s Note: As full disclosure, it should be noted that
I am acting as an volunteer independent auditor for this
fundraising project. This is being done as a personal project, and
does not imply endorsement of this project by Linux Today or
Jupitermedia. –Brian
Proffitt.]