Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:49:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Haas <jhaas@linuxppc.com>
To: pr@macintouch.com, news@maccentral.com, pr@ogrady.com, press@macnn.com,
Subject: [PR] LinuxPPC Inc. employees are "going to jail" for neuromuscular

LinuxPPC employees are "going to jail" to help neuromuscular disease
fund-raiser.

Normally people go to jail for nasty things like drunk driving,
embezzlement, or robbery. Some of our people are going to jail for an
entirely different reason.

LinuxPPC's Jeff Carr and Mariam Darvish will be "going to jail" for the
benefit of the battle against neuromuscular disease.  On September 4, they
will be "arrested" and taken to a "jail cell" at the Country Inn Hotel in
Waukesha until each of them raises $1500 for neuromuscular disease
research.

Donations can be taken by our future inmates prior to September 4. These
will reduce or eliminate the time they have to spend in jail.  Please send
your donations to our main office. The address is:

LinuxPPC, Inc. 
Attn:  Mariam or Jeff (jailbirds) 
235 W. Broadway, Suite 110
Waukesha, WI 53186

Make your checks out to "MDA Lock-Up." The suggested donations are $25 for
individuals and $50 for businesses.  But if you want to send more or less,
that's fine.  Donations must arrive here before September 4 to ensure that
it gets to the appropriate people, and that our people get out of
jail on time -- and help our new release come out on time!

About LinuxPPC Inc.

LinuxPPC Inc., headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, develops and
distributes the LinuxPPC operating system, the most popular Linux
distribution for PowerPC computers. The company dealt a body blow to
Windows 2000 in the recent LinuxPPC Security Challenge, in which a Power
Mac 9500 running LinuxPPC bested a 500 MHz Pentium III running Windows
2000.

The company sponsors development of Linux on PowerPC through hardware
donations and developer sponsorships. LinuxPPC Inc. is a member of Linux
International and the Motorola Computer Group Partner Program.

Contact Information:

LinuxPPC Inc. 
414-427-8555 
http://www.linuxppc.com/

Media contact: 

Jason Haas 
LinuxPPC Inc. 
jhaas@linuxppc.com 
912-236-6097

PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation and
is used under license therefrom. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus
Torvalds.