If you look at the very bottom of the article there is a link to a follow up article. Check it out. They are learning, slowly.
Joel Brauer Only you can decide to be happy! The rest of life is in the details... On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jesus Noland <[email protected]> wrote: > Very true about how easy it was for her to just drop out. She obviously let > just one thing get in her way, when obviously all the news crew had to do > was just call the college and ask if it was okay for her to use the > equipment she already had. This girl couldn't even put that much effort into > it. > > > Clowkun aka Mr. Noland > > > --- On *Thu, 1/15/09, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>* wrote: > > From: John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Wow - Linux just ruined this girls life. > To: "SoCal LUG Users List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 10:03 AM > > > One thing to keep in mind is that part time students, especially at > the > front end of community-college-like-circumstances don't need a lot > of impetus to wash out. > > If it hadn't been Ubuntu it would have been something else. Car > trouble, job schedule, significant other stress, classes are too hard, > teacher is a jerk, etc. > > Public libraries these days have computers usually. Friends have > computers. Parents have computers. People throw away computers when > they upgrade. She obviously didn't try that hard. Geeks in my > experience trip over themselves to help just about any girl that asks > for it. > > But the Dell rep certainly didn't do here any service by saying she > should stick with Ubuntu when she didn't know what it was. We can't > know the full conversation he/she had with here though. > > -- John. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing > list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
