[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[A. P. Garcia]

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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