Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Tux500

[Rich Johnson]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
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| This is wrong in so many ways I am shocked it even made it here.

Well it did, and just so happens they are trying to market Linux at the worlds 
largest 1 day venue.

| The amount of money is already quite ridiculous, without mentioning
| the kind of event / industry it would go to.

Actually 350k sounds low to me truthfully considering the cars themselves cost 
upwards of a million dollars not including running and testing them. 
Sponsorship doesn't come easy.

| Gas. Noise. Speed. Pollution. Money spending. *COOL ?* Is that how we
| want Linux promoted ?

Gas, they will be running greener now with an environmental friendly ethanol 
mixture. Pollution see Gas. Noise, you hear it everyday, get used to it, many 
people go to Indy every year just for the noise and the excitement, and the 
next topic. Speed, if you have an issue with it, go back to 9800 baud modem 
then :) Didn't think so ;p

| I don't think so.

Well it will be interesting. I remember Firefox either trying the same or 
doing the same. My only problem with this is what happens if they don't raise 
all of the money? Who gets that entire amount?

Oh, and I just read, $350k doesn't even guarantee the amount of sponsorship 
they are displaying either. So, if they get lucky and find some poor sap who 
can't drive worth a damn (AJ Foyt Jr.), well I can already hear the "well 
Linux crashes and burns in turn 3." They are going about it all wrong I 
think. So they have 1 month to come up with 350k...OK, I keep reading and 
they are answering my questions...so I will stop with that.

I don't trust it, especially since there were fielded cars last year w/o a 
main sponsor. And what happened to them? Oh they either crashed or their car 
was built like an old Ford and didn't start. :)

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