<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>BWAHAHAHA!!!!!</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 10:49 -0400, A. P. Garcia via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">PS Here is another one of my ideas:<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/graphics/jesus-cartoon.html">https://www.gnu.org/graphics/jesus-cartoon.html</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:41 AM A. P. Garcia <<a href="mailto:a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com">a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:30 AM Simba <<a href="mailto:simbalion-ale@tailpuff.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">simbalion-ale@tailpuff.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah I don't believe you. Sorry.<br>
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Got any historic evidence? blog posts, tech journal news, etc, that<br>
mentions your name?<br>
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Anyway these things are marketing tricks, even without the board<br>
meetings. If there weren't meetings for that particular project, there<br>
were meetings for public image outreach and so on. It's all a dog and<br>
pony show.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
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