Re: [TCLUG:19662] Linux ad

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> It's a real ad, though I dunno if it'll ever go on the teevee.. (there's
> another copy on IBM's site:
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/audio/ibm_linux-02.avi 
> Different file name, same file).

Yeah -- I just went and saw it.  Hrm, very interesting...

> Anyway, lemme try to jot this down..

You, sir, are a gentleman and scholar.

> "1991, Helsinki:  A 21 year-old student named Linus Torvalds writes a
> new computer operating system.

Well, actually that could be corrected to "rewrites an old computer
operating system," but this is one time when I think I'll not complain
about the distortion of the truth for marketing purposes... ;)

> eesh, I'd never make it as a stenographer... :-p

No, but you might yet make it with a stenographer.  Although, given the
last time I heard of anyone with that job title, you would probably have
to be interested in older women.

Back to the grindstone...

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