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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on August 4, 2006 at 05:23, filed under Uncategorized and tagged ubuntu. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

12 Comments

  1. pirast
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 06:31 | Permalink

    heh !

    where is that? i never saw such a ad!

  2. stuhood
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 06:41 | Permalink

    Do we have any idea who paid to have it put up?

  3. det
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 08:47 | Permalink

    Who do you think?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth

  4. Bill Childers
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 08:48 | Permalink

    That ad is on highway 101 northbound, just after the Ralston exit, in Redwood City, CA.

    I took the picture from my cellphone cam going 70 mph. :) No idea who paid to put it up, but my guess is Canonical is probably involved.

  5. Nooks
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 09:51 | Permalink

    If it’s the sign I drove past today, it’s just outside Palo Alto/Mountain View, on US101, heading north toward SFO.

  6. Leon Brooks
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 15:59 | Permalink

    The “(Servers and)” scribble looks very afterthought or graffiti. Perhaps this was done by actual people? (-:

  7. jdub
    Posted August 4, 2006 at 16:30 | Permalink

    Surely the whitespace and layout suggests purpose… :-)

  8. ravi
    Posted August 5, 2006 at 17:52 | Permalink

    jdub, that space ain’t white. :o)

  9. aqua
    Posted August 10, 2006 at 02:57 | Permalink

    I passed that on my way home from work a week or so ago — got a kick out of it. :) That stretch of 101 seems to attract a broader variety of billboards than the usual “you are inadequate, buy this product” sort.

  10. Jepessen
    Posted August 10, 2006 at 06:15 | Permalink

    Great! I think that this’s is a good way to increment our community ;)

  11. Nick Moffitt
    Posted August 10, 2006 at 20:01 | Permalink

    Ubuntu is clearly engaging in ecologically sound brownspace infill server development to beautify the urban core.

  12. Bongo
    Posted August 26, 2006 at 00:08 | Permalink

    IMO I don’t think it was a good idea to like-additionaly place “servers” before “humans”. It makes it look like the “unknown” person thought Ubuntu is not suitable primarily for people. Placing “servers” after “people” would be a better marketing act making it look like Ubuntu is so good that while-being user-friendly it is ALSO capable of server operation. Server admins don’t look for OS on billboards while normal users can IMO.

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  1. By tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem on August 4, 2006 at 18:34

    position to overtly challenge the enterprise strength of Red Hat, hence the Kung Fu style humility. Does that mean it never will be? No indeed. And I think Mark’s contention that Ubuntu’s goals are so different than Red Hat’s are belied by things like this. As pirast, one of the commenters on Mark’s post, reminds us, Linus was similarly humble when in his business ambitions: “Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect”

  2. By tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem on August 4, 2006 at 18:41

    position to overtly challenge the enterprise strength of Red Hat, hence the Kung Fu style humility. Does that mean it never will be? No indeed. And I think Mark’s contention that Ubuntu’s goals are so different than Red Hat’s are belied by things like this. As pirast, one of the commenters on Mark’s post, reminds us, Linus was similarly humble when in his business ambitions: “Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect”

  3. By jwz-free on August 5, 2006 at 03:02

    Jeff Waugh Linux for (Servers and) Human Beings [IMG Ubuntu Billboard] Posted Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:23:05 +0000 (permalink) Tags: ?gnome

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  5. By Planet GNOME on August 9, 2006 at 16:34

    August 09, 2006 09:33 AM

  6. By These Things Matter to Me on November 12, 2006 at 20:15

    [IMG ] There’s a big Ubuntu billboard in Silicon Valley right now. Near Oracle. I like how Tim O’Reilly said: “First Ubuntu Billboard Spotted.” Are we expecting an army of them? (via perkypants.com/blog) Intel releases some open source graphics drivers (for Linux). Veddy cool. Usually the crumbs Intel throws me don’t work on the version of Linux I need them to (without extreme deconstruction). Thanks, Intel! (via