Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Jan 2009 23:20 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
There's a story making its rounds across the 'net about a woman who missed several online classes, and failed her semester, and she claims this happened because she bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it - instead of Windows. She didn't know what Ubuntu was, and was surprised to see that her Windows software, such as Microsoft Office, didn't work. While this isolated case sounds a bit ridiculous, there is still a bigger problem here.
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Since they ( The school ) spent so much on Microsoft License they where left with no money to upgrade and have no decent really protected network in 2009.
The truth is the girl Probably siad "I have no money what is the cheapest solution" , this days GNU/Linux is king of the low end by at least a 100$ margins.
The right thing to do is for Dell to lawyer up and menace to sue the school into the ground for damage to it's business and for Ubuntu to do the same.
Leaving the door open for an amicable settlement by letting the school know that Dell and Ubuntu can offer solution for there network problem and that they wont stand still for them to be on the receiving hand of a shady deals and Libel and slandering.
Dell and Ubuntu should also found out who the girl is , if the story is really true and see if they can't help her in some way.
Microsoft is stealing schools budget and this is just more proof of it ...