[UbuntuWomen] WKOW News story on young woman missing classes due to Ubuntu being shipped on her Dell

[Brenda Wallace]

I can imagine a torrent of abuse if it was Mac OS instead of ubuntu also.


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I first saw this story yesterday:
>
> "Woman blames Dell for missing online classes"
> http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184
> (click link on the left "Dell computer mix-up" for video of story)
>
> I thought it was unfortunate that Dell made the mistake, and was happy
> that the resolution of the story was that the station helped her out
> and things were okay.
>
> Then today someone in a channel I'm in brought it up again today,
> posting some 3rd party link and saying "That person should be given
> the Darwin award for stupidity"
>
> This upset me, I don't like it when people so blindly and cruely throw
> around words like "stupidity", so I went to find the original story
> again, and discovered that the news channel had done a follow-up after
> receiving so much attention:
>
> "Thousands of viewer comments, phone calls about Ubuntu computer story"
> http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9682258&nav=menu1362_2
> (click on link on the left "Ubuntu Users Send Hate E-Mail, Flood
> WKOWTV.COM Over Story" for video)
>
> The article itself says things like:
>
>  "Many Ubuntu users also wrote very personal attacks about the young
> lady who was having trouble using the operating system.  They called
> her "lazy," "a dumb girl," and "not worthy of a college degree."
>
>  The young woman also contacted 27 News to report she's being
> harassed on her Facebook account by Ubuntu users."
>
> And from the video, talking about the emails received: "I can't even
> read most of them on the air because they are abusive, hateful and
> they attack the young woman from our story."
>
> They wrapped up saying that they had received dozens of offers to
> help, but that feels to me like hardly a drop in the bucket when
> compared to the thousands of responses.
>
> Very sad, not even because it was a woman featured in this story
> (gender actually is irrelevant), but that so many Ubuntu users chose
> to strike out in such an abusive and hateful way.
>
> Sigh.
>
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