[Ubuntu-PH] Arguments agains persecution by Microsoft-centric office

[Radamanthus Batnag]

If it is true that software can be written to damage your laptop's
LCD, then an "LCD Killer Windows Virus" should have been reported in
the wild long ago. The fact that there's no such virus out there
strongly suggests that this isn't possible.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/mini-faq/

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On 11/24/06, Alvin Gutierrez <alvinbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barbon Wilson John wrote:
> > Dear fellow Ubunteros,
> >
> > I have been using Ubuntu for more than a year now and its only that I
> > am being persecuted by the office for damaging the office-issued
> > laptop because I run ubuntu in it.
> >
> This really is a lousy argument, but unfortunately very common. When I
> implemented Ubuntu on all our company desktops, poor Dapper gets blamed
> for every imaginable thing that went wrong!
>
> You already told them that the LCD problem exists even when you're
> running windows. Seems that their resistance is so great, they're not
> even willing to listen to you. In my case, I conducted a lot of
> orientation/awareness discussions with users -- before and after
> migration. And (quite subtly, I must say), always emphasized that Ubuntu
> is not the problem, but their mindsets are. Top management should
> support your direction if you want it to work out.
>
> Alvin
>
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