A few days ago or so, I read about a story from digg on some dude giving away free Ubuntu cds at his local MacDonalds. So this sounds like your typical Ubuntu/Linux evangelist spreading the love around. He has since deleted his forum posts, but he claimed that the cds were well received and the manager was using Ubuntu on his 4 month old laptop the very next day. Couple of screenshots here:
It turns out that diggers did some digging and found out everything was a big fat lie except for the part about leaving some Ubuntu cds at Mac's. And while he appears to be a pretty nice guy in his forum posts, his ugly side rears its head in his agitated responses to the original story submitter. The best part is he claimed that everything was ok till digg went to screw it up and he intends to change his name, details, etc. Presumably, his original intent of posting his "story" was to encourage people to distribute the cds (ok, maybe it wasn't). What digg did was to spread this great "story" around and perhaps encouraged a couple others to do the same. Blaming digg, the story submitter and changing your particulars aren't going to help you if your story is simply fabricated.
Lesson to be learnt? Just because you're on the internet and you think no one is looking doesn't mean that you can just make up stories. Don't lie on the internet, for we are watching you (imagine Robert DeNiro doing the hand action to Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents/Fockers).
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
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