Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[edward chin]

If you compare this with the number of times I've heard Windows
"won't work"...
I still get calls (almost weekly) about Windows problems, even though
I've made it clear to friends and associates I no longer service MS.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 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.
>
> Ian
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