Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 15 21:08:53 UTC 2009


One word: PEBCAK

(problem exists between chair and keyboard)

:-)

Paul King

> 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.
>
> Ian
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