On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:46 -0400, mindwave@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Having been to several 'indy' events I think they MAY be aiming at the > 'elietst' crowd and the larger corporate owners. > > although i cant think of a single company that sponsored a car BEFORE > it had the worlds ear. Home Depot, Lowes, STP etc. I hate to wade in here, but CDW sponsors a number of cars (CHAMP, NASCAR [ugh!], ALMS, Speed World Challenge, etc.), as do Compuware and several others that don't "have the world's ear" (and they still may not). ACS Racing (fairly well known in GT racing) is owned by Applied Computer Solutions and one of their cars is driven by the founder of ACS (Steve Davis). Oracle, Dell and a bunch of others also sponsor cars, so I kinda find this argument a bit specious. Then there are sponsors that I still don't know what the devil they are. Do you know who InDeck (Paul Tracy's sponsor in CHAMP) is? > It is ALSO a quick way to generate LOTS of cash. most sponsors in that > league would think nothing of throwing half a mil in advertising to a > race team, unfortunately they are appealing to a community of millions > of individuals on the HOPE that several hundred thousand will toss in > a dollar. That's all advertising is. > Could be worse, they could be tempting NASCAR. Can you imagine Cooter > and Skeeter the 1st time they have to CHMOD? Ok, I've weighed in and I'm done. I am not going to follow this thread anymore. > > > > OY! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:16 pm > Subject: Re: Tux 500 > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 13:36 -0400, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > The only way Linux will ever become a worthy adversary to MS > > > on the desktop is when the Linux community as a whole has > > > an open mind about doing things that apparently most Linux > > > users think are stupid. > > > > Ok, there's a joke to made about that... Hmm. To be on a par > > with MS, > > we've got to do just as stupid things as Windows does. > > > > As it stands, Linux is a good alternative. It does what it does. > > It'savailable for use by all those interested in using it. And > > it's not > > forced upon you, unlike Windows. > > > > Yes, marketing works, but you do have to pitch to the right > > market. Is > > car racing full of computing enthusiasts, or car enthusiasts? > > Linux is > > something for computing enthusiasts, not just computer users. > Windows > > and MacOS is for them. There's little point in being a clone of > them. > > Where's the benefit. You're no-longer an alternative. > > > > -- > > (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's > > important to the thread.) > > > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > > I read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
