RE: OFFTOPIC: Linux Penguin hawking Apple Quicktime?!?

Brian Topping (topping@mauswerks.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:41:56 -0800


Yeah, that's the pecker! The one I saw had less accoutrements, so he
looked a little more similar.

Urgh! A zillion dollars spent on a silly ad campaign to "think
different", and all they can do is copy someone else's creativity.
Maybe they should have used a single cell ameba as their mascot.

"Apple - Still arranging deck chairs on the Titanic..."

-B

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Keryan [SMTP:keryan@andrew.cmu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 8:01 AM
To: C. Scott Ananian
Cc: Brian Topping; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux Penguin hawking Apple
Quicktime?!?

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 Brian Topping <topping@mauswerks.com>
wrote:
>
> > I was really disappointed to install Apple QuickTime
developer release
> > for Windoze, only to find a silhouette of the back of the
Linux Penguin.
> > I was insulted when a later screen had a full frontal of the
closest
> > thing to the brother of the Penguin that I have seen.
>
> You should probably take a screenshot and post it somewhere so
we know
> what you're talking about. I would guess that most of us here
on this
> list don't run Windows much.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
seems to be it...

Brad