[olug] Fast Food Linux in NEBRASKA (for those who don't digg the digg)

[Jon H. Larsen]

Sorry to post this in response, but the incident appears to be exaggerated 
to some extent.

http://blog.thetechgurus.net/?p=69

Here's the important part of the article...

>Some of the readers from Digg started researching into this guy’s 
>story. 
>They callled the 3 McDonalds stores in the guy’s area and found out 
>none 
>of them knew anything about Ubuntu and no one could backup this guy’s 
>claim.
>
>After news started getting around that there was no veracity to the 
>story, 
>Techsonic made an announcement on his blog 
>http://techsonicorangefox.blogspot.com/ that the story was fake. The only 
>true part was that he left a few Ubuntu cd’s at a McDonalds, but that 
>was it. No massive demand for his Linux cd’s, no request for more 
>cd’s, nada.


On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brandon Lederer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:39:08 -0600
> From: Brandon Lederer <olug at zerocoolhideout.net>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Fast Food Linux in NEBRASKA (for those who don't digg the
>     digg)
> 
> "I had burned 20 copies of Ubuntu 5.10 and light scribed them with the ubuntu 
> cd cover.
> 
> I took 10 of them in with me to McDonalds and asked if I could just set them 

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