Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[JoeHill]

Ian Petersen wrote: 

> This link came through an internal mailing list at work today:
> http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184
> 
> Summary: Lady wants to go back to school, so buys a computer from
> Dell.  The sales guy encourages her to choose Ubuntu over Windows.
> She discovers Ubuntu "won't work" and drops out of school.
> 
> Sounds like user error to me (she claimed that Ubuntu couldn't get on
> the net with Verizon), but it's still probably bad press for Ubuntu.

This is a nothing story from a nothing source written by a nobody. It doesn't
matter at all, except to the extent that people who might actually like Ubuntu
are for some misguided reason paying attention to it and posting it to a
million discussion groups.

Buried.

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