-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 12, 2003 11:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Ok, A thought here. In an effort to be constructive. How many > times have you seen on say Automobile company sites something like > Volkswagen or Toyota, screensavers you can download? Linux has never > been "ripe" with high quality screensavers. They either are > beautiful CPU suckers like some of the openGL ones (keuphoria for > example) or butt ugly ones like juggle. What if Mandrake sold > "space" on the disk for these companies to create Linux screensavers. > I mean a full blown screensaver. Not just a random picture collage. > One thing a lot of these are designed to be is beautiful. (on > windows or MAC) We win. MDK wins and the companies win. Then the > user can choose which advertising screen saver they want. It doesn't > feel intrusive like popunders or the read this page or you can't go > on crap. But it is an add. I mean heck. The new IBM add for Linux > would make a great screensaver. And if the user chooses it, they > can't complain. I mean heck I'd chose a screensaver from Chrysler > based on the new Crossfire. Or maybe one from Lancome featuring some > stunningly beautiful faces wearing their makeup. They pay MDK for the > right to be in the distro, They pay MDK for the help in creating the > screensavers. (MDK could subcontract that part.) They get a longer > and more valuable impression level. Heck they could even have the > new ones as downloads in update and send the companies feedback as to > the number of downloads. That's not intrusive, nor does it invade > privacy. They could be targeted. With screensavers marked de ca, en > tw etc., so people get what they want. What do ya'll think? The > only thing they would have to be is quiet. (think business office or > even worse a real quiet house when suddenly the screensaver kicks in > on box 2 and you forgot to turn down the sound after listening to the > latest mp3 from NIN.) I mean if it's here. It's real. It's not > going away. So why not benefit from it completely? > > James
I think it's definite improvement over the few other suggestions I've read James. It actually *is* constructive. Take it one step further, Porsche, Ferrari, or whichever French car manufacturer is running the World Rally Championship, Formula 1, etc could by screen saver space from Mandrake Linux and tie all there ads together such as: (VO, TV Spot; still shots or video of "the latest and greatest from whichever corporation in an attractive, exiting setting) "Our technology (or product etc) turns up in all the right places. (examples from still or video images); including one of the World's most advanced computer operating systems....." (Corporation name and logo) and Mandrake Linux, partners in helping ease your journey into the future." Just off the top of my head, I ain't an advertising maven. But you get the idea. Use the same images for the screen saver with the same "captions" in an attractive font. It's an idea anyway.... Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-8mdk 23:26:03 up 1:59, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.22, 0.19 Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is doing it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YqzNG11CaRuZZSIRAl1hAKCKQc02rHagB7WcdD/k+1XLtoVczgCcDK7S ksAyluN1uU0gVMDe2yz9Vrs= =Wxtp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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