[Cialug] OT: Online Petitions (was: OT: Choose the lesser evil? Save XP?)

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On 1/14/08, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am very curious -- has any org ever cited an online petition as the
>> reason for a major (in dollar terms) policy reversal?
>>     
>
>
> Dell started shipping computers with Ubuntu preinstalled.
>   
But wasn't that an online survey done by Dell to determine which distro 
to use? They had already decided to offer some flavor of Linux. That's 
quite different from an un-solicited petition.

-dc