[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Jim Kinney]

BWAHAHAHA!!!!!

On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 10:49 -0400, A. P. Garcia via Ale wrote:
> PS Here is another one of my ideas:
> https://www.gnu.org/graphics/jesus-cartoon.html
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:41 AM A. P. Garcia <
> a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:30 AM Simba <simbalion-ale at tailpuff.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Yeah I don't believe you. Sorry.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Got any historic evidence? blog posts, tech journal news, etc,
> > > that
> > > 
> > > mentions your name?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Anyway these things are marketing tricks, even without the board
> > > 
> > > meetings. If there weren't meetings for that particular project,
> > > there
> > > 
> > > were meetings for public image outreach and so on. It's all a dog
> > > and
> > > 
> > > pony show.
> > 
> > Here's the story. Around the time this happened, I was
> > corresponding with Richard Stallman about public outreach. In the
> > course of our emails, he looped in a woman who was doing some free
> > marketing consulting for him. I don't know who she was or whom she
> > worked for. The original idea I had was some artwork that would
> > resemble the colorful murals that you see in inner cities. It would
> > depict happy people and GNUs, and the message would be peace, love,
> > and GNU's Not Unix!
> > 
> > Within weeks of my suggestion, the graffiti incident in San
> > Francisco took place. Coincidence? Maybe. I would have to dig up
> > those old emails to corroborate the timing. Even better, I could
> > find out who that woman was and whether she worked in any capacity
> > for IBM marketing. But you know what? I really don't care. It's
> > entirely plausible that it was just a coincidence, and I've never
> > tried to take credit for it before. It doesn't really matter to me.
> 
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James P. Kinney III

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own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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