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Bruce Perens Canned by HP
bmarklein writes "Bruce Perens has been fired by HP for "Microsoft-baiting". This was linked in part to the HP-Compaq merger, since Windows is now a much bigger part of HP's business."
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Lets hope he joins Dell.
Dude, You're Getting a Job!
On Bruce Perens Bio:
Among my assignments is to challenge HP management.
That's what he thought!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Yes, I'm sure Bill Gates personally has a black list in his office with the names of all Open Source advocates that have challenged his empire and every morning, at a strategic meeting with his closest advisors, he has a conversation like this:
- Bill, we have successfully increased the revenue of the company by 20%. We expect this to bring the stockholders to the level of optimism they had before the recession.
Bill: Yeah, yeah, whatever...
- Bill, our deals with the media conglomerates regarding DRM are proceeding flawlessly, ensuring that we are unopposed to push for the PC as the consumer device that coordinates everyone's information-related activities, including entertainment.
Bill: Sure. That's nice, I guess.
- Bill, our marketing campaign for Web Services is being successful among developers. Soon they will be tied to our standards and companies will have to consider Windows servers seriously for their large-scale network services.
Bill: What's wrong with you people? Is this what I pay you for?!
Silence.
Bill: Ok, who can answer the really important question? How close am I to fulfilling my personal vendetta against the Open Source Linux geeks? How many did we get fired today?
- I called HP yesterday morning. We got Bruce Perens fired.
Bill: Geek #427? EXCELLENT!
Bill takes list, draws little check mark on "#427 Bruce Perens" entry.
Bill: Ok. According to my list, "#428 Billy Tempherton" is next. He's a Linux administrator for a community college in Iowa that posted something about me being evil and Windows crashing his computer, at that Slashdot site in 1999...
- We're working on it, Sir!
Bill: Good! Meeting dismissed! I have to go to Slashdot and see who posted something against me today...
Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
No, advertisers pay for the service. Don't edit them out. :-)
...that he kept pestering Carly to change the company name to GNU/HP
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Information wants...you to shut your pie hole.
If all of our advertisements were like this, I don't think I'd even bother with blocking popups.
Now, I must go buy something at random.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
... let's all stand up.
sulli
RTFJ.
Yesterday, Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, came out in support of the 1633 house arrest of Galileo Galilei during an address to industry executives.
"Pope Urban the Eighth had every right to do this.", Ms. Fiorina exclaimed. "Mr. Galilei knew that this 'Sun belongs in the Center' heresy was dangerous stuff and he should have known better than to go around spouting off about it. If I were Pope, I would have canned his ass much, much sooner."
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
If you shove your head any farther up his ass, you're going to hit his colon, you tool.
Well, I guess "being fired" gets news - but I would rather the article was just about me and not about HP.
:-)
Hmm.... I think I know the real reason he had to go...
Carly: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the biggest HP ego of all?
MM: I don't think I should let this loose, you won't like it, it's not you, it's Bruce.
Carly: Noooooo! Where is my huntsman? I need someone good with a chopping block.
(No offense Bruce
"The best part? I became an ordained minister while not wearing pants." -- CleverNickName
I highly doubt that many people aren't using linux because they're following the Hurd.
Are we sure this was the "Real Bruce Perens" - check his employee number to be sure.
(play on his old sig)
Hmm... does anyone else wonder if the real reason Bruce was fired is because he couldn't stop reading Slashdot at work?
I'm sorry, but... Democrats as economically *centrist*?
+1, Funny
You're off by a parsec.
Others: please, disregard his definitions.
OK. We get it! You're a girl. Your userid is Ellen Ripley. You sign your posts "Ellen". Your sig also says "Ellen Ripley" in it. We get it. You're a girl. You're on slashdot. Do you want a medal?
Calm down, Beavis! I learned my posting style in USENET news in the more civilized and genteel -- one might even say quaint, rural or old-fashioned -- legendary and distant days of yore... okay, 1987... so that's how I format my posts here.
You can shut off signatures by visiting your Comment Options page and checking "Disable Sigs".
I can't help you with the userid, name or low frustration threshold issues.
Ellen
mods metamodded as "Unfair"