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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!
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...
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.
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
Hmm... does anyone else wonder if the real reason Bruce was fired is because he couldn't stop reading Slashdot at work?