Hi All, I did finally read the ad & it is as Devendra has described below, although I would like to say a few words about the ad itself.
Well, the message is quite subtle. On the face of it, looks quite a harmless little ad, telling children to stay away from pirated XP copies. But, the last "... won't we, Papa?" & the "Leave no room for doubt..." following it is all that makes the difference. It's an open invitation for the children to find out whether their fathers have really bought their copy of XP or not(most probably not). I mean, educating children about Intellectual property & licensing & paying the cost to get the goods etc. is one thing & telling them to sneak up on their dads to find out that they're doing something that is illegal is an entirely different thing. One might as well write "mera bap chor hai" on their forearms :). But I liked the idea of going on the given page through FF or using Linux. :D Regards, Viraj On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:25:32 -0800 (PST), Devendra Laulkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I haven't read the ad either and the part about > > Here is how the ad goes, its almost half a page. : > > There is a boy in the picture with a big concerned > look. Below that the following words : > "Of course, we will have have genuine Microsoft > Windows XP in our computers... Won't we, Papa?" > > Lean no room for doubt. Follow 3 simple steps to make > sure that you MS XP is Genuine. > > The boys concerned look covers most of the ad. There > is a sidebar which tells the 3 steps(logo, certificate > and the third is to go to the website > > -Devendra. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
