Ubuntu 8.04 and KDE

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 30 December 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Until Microsoft buys one of them, and kills it.

> That's not really fair to MS - they didn't invent the practice in the
> computer world.

True.  Adobe is another contemporary giant in this arena, for example.  Most 
of the giants of yore have been consumed in turn by some other giant, and the 
whole thing is a lot like the railroads of yore. There used to be hundreds of 
little railroads, and then dozens of bigger railroads, and now only the 
anti-trust laws prevent there from being just one, or two.  Or toys; look how 
many different toys and board games are owned by Hasbro now, with venerable 
names like Tonka dragged through the mud.

But it's still fun to blame Microsoft for everything, because everything about 
the company just sucks so much.  (And hey, I'm speaking as an official 
Microsoft Partner.  That's a long, and perhaps amusing story.  You guys 
should see the stuff they send out to their minions.  It's a hoot, but I 
probably signed something that would put me in jail if I started posting any 
of it in public.)  (And no, I didn't get the job I was after, and I'm still 
driving an 18-wheeler.)

> > look like one of Mephisto's five-assed monkeys.
>
> Sure, but - still like biology - most of those hybridizations are going to
> be infertile :-)

True, but even mules can breed on rare occasions.
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D. Michael McIntyre