<BODY>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. 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. Could be worse, they could be tempting NASCAR. Can you imagine Cooter and Skeeter the 1st time they have to CHMOD? OY! ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:16 pm Subject: Re: Tux 500 To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com> > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 13:36 -0400, linuxmaillists@charter.net 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@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > </BODY>