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Story: Dell advertizement: Ubuntu keeps getting better!Total Replies: 5
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Sander_Marechal

Jun 17, 2010
2:12 PM EDT 		... and made a few phone calls. Now it reads:

Quoting:According to industry reports, Ubuntu is unaffected by the vast majority of viruses and spyware.


That's some fast backpedlin' there!
gus3

Jun 17, 2010
2:58 PM EDT 		I hope someone got a screenshot of the old copy.
hkwint

Jun 17, 2010
3:19 PM EDT 		Google cache does:

http://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQIDAA&...

And, therefore, I do too! Will be trying to upload it to LXer...
hkwint

Jun 17, 2010
3:43 PM EDT 		What 'ya think, me quicker than WagEdd Quick Response team, or what?

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=137354

Thanks for reporting, Sander. Now I was able to make our own 'news story' within 15 minutes ;)
tracyanne

Jun 22, 2010
2:25 AM EDT 		Actually it also reads better, and makes Ubuntu look even better. It makes Ubuntu look better because it plays from the assumption that Microsoft want every one to make... that viruses and spyware etc are an industry wide menace, not a Windows only Menace... it stands to reason that if Ubuntu isn't susceptable to an industry wide menace it must be really secure, whereas not be susceptible to Window malware should be expected.
caitlyn

Jun 22, 2010
4:16 PM EDT 		Great point, TA. The original language was a bit more in your face and explicit about Ubuntu being the superior choice. The new language requires a bit of intelligence and reading comprehension to reach the conclusion you reached. Sadly, some people lack both or, more often, are simply too intellectually lazy to use either.

Anyway, I still think Dell caved to pressure from Microsoft. They just didn't so it as completely as other manufacturers.

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