utln Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 (This was too weird to post on the front page, but too weird to ignore)Microsoft can roll out countless studies that point out how proprietary software is cheaper and more practical than open source code. But how can Microsoft counter open source software's ability to make a Japanese woman give birth to a horse in a convenience store?That's the question being raised by Japanese software pioneer SourceNext. The company has launched an astonishing advertising campaign featuring a horse, famous actress Norika Fujiwara and a couple of Slurpee slingers to promote StarSuite - Sun Microsystems' Japanese Office knock off based on the open source OpenOffice. In one television ad, Fujiwara is so overcome by the $18 StarSuite price tag that she pops out a foal near the magazine rack of a corner store.Full Story (with videos): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/06/sourcenext_horse/
Tokugawapants Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 Hahaha for people who don't speak Japanese I can understand the utter confusion. I guess knowing Japanese makes it a tad less funny, but still extremely funny anyway.
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