So having been busy for the last few days with work I had not seen this story which had taken the net by storm.
The story was about a young girl that brought a laptop from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed and found she couldn't set up her wireless modem or install MS Word and therefore, was unable to complete an on-line college course.
On reading it kinda smacked of a story written by a MS employee.
And then someone added it to digg and the Linux world and their wife torn the article, the author and the girl to pieces.
Most of the comments were aimed at the clearly under researched article and the technical inadequacies but some fools attacked the young lady. I myself feel that this is __NOT__ the kind of image that I want associated with Linux. No matter how we feel about someone that has found Linux not to their taste for what ever reason we should learn something from them and not instult them.
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