Re: Pirating Ubuntu?

["DoctorMO" <user=57@nabble.blu.org>]

 I got a better response from firedog in Boston when I went in to 
advocate. The Best Buy guys were more dismissive although I recon 
you've got to go in there a few times a day over a weekend to get more 
than one shift of staff. 

2008/7/8 Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]>: 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Boland, John <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> the worst part is that bestbuy is selling the disc for $20 and for an 
>> additional $130 their geek squad folks will install it! 
> 
> I'm going to venture a guess that they don't really know how to 
> install it.  On a related note, I went into Circuit City this weekend 
> and told them I was looking for a laptop for my little brother that 
> could run "this" on, and handed him an official Ubuntu Hardy Heron 
> (8.04) disc in colorful cardboard sleeve.  The FIREDOG dude said, "oh 
> yeah, let me take a look" and then flipped the case over to the back 
> in search of the computer system requirements, although there was no 
> mention of Windows at all :-)  He them proceeded to hem and haw, but 
> was "quite sure" the models he showed me could run the software! 
> That's when I politely volunteered that this was an Operating System, 
> and not an application.  So perhaps Geek Squad is more up to speed 
> than Firedog...hehe 
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