Four Ubuntu Installations -- Telling sellers

[Paul M Edwards]

On 9/12/05, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> 
> Could you make sure that the people you bought the machine off---and anyone
> else you can think of (write a letter/email to your favourite computer
> magazine?)---know _why_ you returned the machine;  what the problem is
> (probably buggy ACPI/"buggy BIOS"), that the machine won't run Linux out of
> the box because of that and that $other_manufacturer got a sale instead,
> after you'd returned the eMachines PC.
> 
> Perhaps we should have a ''shame of the month'' feature somewhere!  :-)
> 
>         -Paul


Money talks, but if the manufacturer's aren't listening, they won't
hear our grumblings.

So, I agree that it's a good idea to notify the manufacturers when
they lose sales over issues such as this.
-- 
Paul M Edwards