IBM to pay $100,000-plus in Linux ad mess

**cloverm** · 11-27-2001, 11:45 PM

IBM has agreed to pay San Francisco a $100,000 fine and almost $20,000 in related costs to clean up after the company's "Peace, Love & Linux" ad campaign, in which the company's ad firm spray-painted logos on sidewalks and streets around the city.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd

**pbharris** · 11-28-2001, 01:02 AM

ah man. those were nice. i hope the fines were worth it.

**ndogg** · 11-28-2001, 04:01 AM

ah man. *those were nice. *i hope the fines were worth it.

Yeah, I just hope they didn't manage to give Linux any sort of punker image, not that that would necessarily be a bad thing.

**tolstoy** · 11-28-2001, 09:31 AM

Spray painting the sidewalk was just a bad idea, though those pictures were cute. In NYC there ads were on top of cabs and there was a huge pegnuin painted on the entire side of a building near the Port Authority. The sign was up for months. Now, however, it has been replaced by a Windows XP ad. :'(