Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[JoeHill]

Ian Petersen wrote: 

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:22:51AM -0800, Ian Petersen wrote:  
> >> 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.  
> 
> While I can see it being bad press for Dell, "everyone knows" Verison
> is evil--it is a telco, after all--so I don't see it being much of a
> problem for Verizon.  In fact, Verizon has offered to help the woman
> connect to the net without running the Windows-only CD, whereas Dell
> was unavailable for comment.
> 
> Interestingly, when I checked the story again to confirm that Verizon
> had offered to help the woman, there's an update saying that this
> story is the most widely read story ever posted to www.wkowtv.com.
> They plan on updating the story tonight with commentary on the story's
> spread around the net.

_all of which_ only happened because it was posted to Digg and the Ubuntu/Linux
fans unwittingly stepped in the trap. It's a troll, and we're falling for it
all the way.

-- 
J
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