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Linux fans ‘hack’ Windows XP advert

All your billboards are belong to us

By Tony Smith • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 14th November 2001 15:01 GMT

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Updated British Linux users have begun to tell the wider world what they think about Microsoft's Windows XP. Their weapon: the spray can.

Register reader Martin Jenkins spotted this defaced XP ad on the A38 in Bristol.

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Do we have the start of a culture jamming trend here? This site has a nice piccy of another XP ad cunningly defaced in East London. ®

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