Fwd: Ubuntu Laptop...

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 10:45, Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Be careful when dealing with shop personnel regarding GNU/Linux support.
> > One of the reasons given by some US shops for their lack on GNU/Linux
> > support is that GNU/Linux users ask a lot of difficult questions which
> > chew up the time of salespeople. Once their questions have been answered,
> > the shoppers go and buy from some place cheaper.
>
> Quite possibly.  This is more a problem in places that employ clueful
> people, which tend to be the smaller shops.  People do their research
> there and end up buying elsewhere.

I know that this is a reason given by one of the larger chains in the USA. I 
think it was CompUSA.


-- 
"OS/2 is the platform of the '90s." - Bill Gates
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