> I don't think the problem is or was Ubuntu

No, it isn't. It's a beat-up of a nothing story by elitist geeky little
snobs who think they know computers better than anyone else (big
deal), that the sun shines out of Linux's a** and anyone, particularly
a girl, who made a mistake is fair game for ridicule

> People like this should not be allowed to breed

solarwind, if that's an attitude you're going to hang on to, good luck
in life. You're going to need it

I mean, that is just so ....... Well, she's lucky the Nazis didn't win or
they'd have those ovaries out licketty-spit. Very keen on that sort of
thing they were

> Now claiming to have lost two semesters because of a) not having
> called Verizon support and b) not having asked the college whether
> they would accept OpenOffice documents is... (fill in your favorite
> expression for this sort of thing :)

You can smell the bias on the story from here. IMHO it was put up
for one reason and one reason only. Without comment from the girl
herself it's not even proper reporting

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