Saturday, October 13, 2007
WTF?? eBay using Tux as a symbol for Internet fraud???
eBay Australia has a fraud awareness page and a related flash game, both of which feature a depiction of a fraudster as a balding, bespectacled man with Tux, the Linux mascot, prominently displayed on his shirt. I don't get it .... if you support Linux you're a scammer????
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 10:08 AM
Comments:
That's not really any worse than most Linux distributions coming with a copy of "Kill Bill", is it?
The bad guy is always the person/product you don't like. That really says more about the affiliations of Ebay than anything else. Microsoft and Ebay have several "strategic alliances" and there have even been rumors that Microsoft will acquire Ebay at some point.
It's not surprising that Tux shows up as a representation of evil when Microsoft strategic partners are involved.
