Slate's Ad Report Card: IBM's High-Concept Linux
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Still image from one of the IBM Linux advertisements, featuring a young boy, celebrities and exotic locations.
Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews a new television commercial from IBM that features big celebrities selling not so much a product, but an idea -- the Linux computer operating system, a direct competitor to Microsoft's dominant Windows system.
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