Re: [Hampshire] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bo…

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with BoltCutters!
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> I think some of the Carphone Warehouse employees must be taking back
> handers from Microsoft somewhere [1]. When I was in the Havant branch
> the other day I heard one actively trying not to sell a Webbook to a
> customer. It was probably more complicated than that, but he was telling
> them that they only had the Linux versions in stock and you couldn't do
> anything with those. It was, according to him, much better to wait for a
> Windows (XP) version because you could install software on it and
> actually use it to do stuff!
>


That's worthy of a complaint to CPW IMO.

Cheers,
Al.