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Ad Creep/Nerd Graffiti Spotting
Advertisements for the newly released Microsoft Vista operating system crept into Finch subway station, and then someone (presumably a computer nerd with a blade) strategically defaced the ad by cutting out letters.
That's one bold (not to mention criminal and risky) way to display loyalty to open source and the relatively nerdy Linux operating system!
According to J. Carlos Navea's blog loconet, the sign has since been fixed.
Image via Tribe.ca
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MS FTW!
I'm anti-Mac, and even I found that funny.
So if Microsoft racketeers to the moon... that's OK.. cause it's Microsoft and they are entitle to do just anything they want... locking people into their products, extend standards so other standard-compliant systems can't work with microsoft's products (embrace and extinguish... uh, I mean, extend... somebody?), charge enormous amounts of money for any kind of crapware they decide to produce, spit any amount of FUD necessary... and that's all OK!
But If one linux fan removes some letters from one MS advertisements in a subway.... let's just take that punk to the court house and throw him into jail till he learns how to decouple IE from XP.
How pathetic is that?
I think what Jonathan is saying could be summed as, "play fair, fight fair." Linux lovers would not like it if an MS lover defaced a Linux advert. Linux lovers should honorably stand-out as builders of a better product and community, not for the vandalism we would not tolerate coming at us.
but nice job
I'm willing to bet that the person who defaced that ad didn't do it to support Linux, but rather did it to point out that people can do a lot better.
As for it being a crime, this is true. The ad is legal -- at least in the technical sense. (Morally, this kind of ad saturation is downright criminal.) But lets keep this in perspective. This isn't an ad defacing an ad, it's politically-charged vandalism directed at a company that has proven itself to be one of the greatest corporate criminals in history.
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