Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:22:51AM -0800, 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.

Or bad press for Dell or bad press for Verizon.

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