[Ubuntu-PH] ubuntu-ph Digest, Vol 20, Issue 21

[Yolynne Medina]

Oh David, ang puso mo.. lapit pa naman na nang birthday mo!

Happy Birthday Pare!

mwuah


On 11/23/06, david t. asuncion, jr. <daveasuncion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:06:47 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Barbon Wilson John < wjbarbon at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Ubuntu-PH] Arguments agains persecution by Microsoft-centric
> >         office
> > To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas < ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID: <810971.29069.qm at web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >   Its a Dell Latitude C840 laptop and the problem is that the LCD went
> > dead, on power up it turns to washed out white screen. It has the same issue
> > also when its running in Windows. Then they send to Dell for repair and now
> > its happen again. The office refused to send to Dell service center again
> > because according to them I damaged it because I am using Ubuntu and not
> > Windows.
> >
> >   This is a Microsoft-centric office and its very easy for the
> > organization to blame Linux in general as damaging to PCs. I have been
> > running Ubuntu and other FOSS applications to show them that there is an
> > alternative to buying sinful software licenses.
> >
> >   We are a development organization, helping poor island communities and
> > we have spend more than 300,000 pesos just for software licenses when that
> > money can go a long way for facilitating development activities in poor
> > communities.
> >
> >   Can I just ask some help how to argue myself that or how to go about
> > it that Ubuntu or any Linux did not cause the damage to the LCD of this
> > laptop?
> >
> >   Wilson
> >   (ssdo)
> >
> >
> > ---------
>
>
> This reminds me of my experience when I was blamed for a hard disk failure
> as I installed Windows XP.  Sabi daw, sinira ng Windows XP ung hard disk..
> dapat daw kasi Windows 98.
>
> Tama ung nagsabi na ang burden of proof ay sa kanila.  Let them think for
> themselves how stupid they are to say such a thing.
>
> The thing is, did Dell said anything about Ubuntu damaging their product?
> They must know, right?  but since they didn't said anything like that then
> Linux should NOT be blamed.
>
> Kapag ganyan ang pagiisip ng kasama mo... parang gusto kong sabihan ng
> "Eto ang tawag dito ay keyboard, eto ay monitor, at eto ang CPU.. now you
> think you know everything about computers?  Then shut up!"
>
> Sorry, got carried away. :)
>
> --
> David Tacasa Asuncion, Jr.
> website keeper, forever linux newbie, BUM extraordinaire
>
> Linux User # 406430
> http://counter.li.org/
>
> GPG: 0A024BC0
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-ph mailing list
> ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph
>
>
>


-- 
Happy Moments, Praise God, Difficult Moments, Seek God, Quiet Moments,
Worship God, Painful Moments, Trust God, Every Moment, Thank God

YM's OpenGPG key: 0x3C45D3D4
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/attachments/20061124/497c73b8/attachment.html>