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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by thom_nic on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:36PM (#10153672)
Mods: happened in 2007 (I think,) video uploaded 2009 - pls correct title.
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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by melling on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:43PM (#10153712)
Linux turns 25 next year. Is anyone working on a consumer desktop yet?

Did I say something wrong? 25 years, a thousand distros that add up to 1% of the desktop, is a bit disappointing.

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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by Zigurd on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:35PM (#10153662)
Was this ever fact-checked? The whole thing, including having it make the news, smells like a dirty tricks campaign.
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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by tomstockmail on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:47PM (#10153765)
It really happened. I attended this school at the time and had a Linux OS class. We spent a class learning how to better educate people. I know that's no real evidence, but I feel it's a little better than your conspiracy theory.
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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by monroepe on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:33PM (#10153648)
I like that the guy's solution was to basically call the college and call Verizon. I feel like she could have done the same.
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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by leftnode on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:38PM (#10153683)
She did and they said it was too late to return it.
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Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College by jkrejci on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:37PM (#10153676)
At least it wasn't FreeBSD AMIRITE?!!!!!?!??!
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