Time & Temperature via linux

[Jared]

Advertising Linux? I believe it goes against the
internal ethic. Let it spread by word of mouth alone.
Fewer newbies who complain, that way.

I'm not saying Red Hat and IBM and others are corrupting
Linux by marketing it, they're not. I'm saying I personally
won't do that.

We live in an extraordinarily overcommercialized
society. It seems like anything for free comes with
some kinda infomercial tag attached. I'd like to
experiment with what people think about using a
service that has no commercial tag, letting word of
mouth do what it will do.

I do like the "fortune -s" idea, though.

>>It wouldn't be terrible to have a blurb at the _end_ of the message
>>however would it?  Folks who wanna listen aren't captive, and it could do
>>some good.  Those who don't care will just hang up.
> 
> Yeah!  Just a little catchphrase like "Powered by Linux", or "Linux--choice of 
> a GNU generation", or "Linux--where do you want to go tomorrow?"  Could have 
> several and pick one randomly.
> 
> Or have it read the output of "fortune -s"  :-)