Linux Advocacy Crackdown
SHERIDAN, WY -- In an unprecedented blow to Linux advocacy, Aaron McAdams, an
employee at the Sheridan Try-N-Save Discount Store, was fired last week.
According to the store's general manager, McAdams was fired because "he
constantly rearranged items on shelves so that Linux-related books and
software boxes would be displayed more prominently than Windows merchandise."
McAdams' boss added, "If he would have spent as much time actually working as
he did hiding Windows books at the back of shelves, he wouldn't have received
the pink slip."
The general manager supplied Humorix with videotapes from the store's
security cameras showing McAdams in action. In one scene, he takes a whole
stack of "...For Dummies" books and buries them in the Cheap Romance section,
an area of the store rarely visited by computer users. In another, McAdams
can be plainly seen setting copies of Red Hat Linux in front of a large,
eye-catching display of various Microsoft products at the front of the
store. Finally, at one point McAdams can be seen slapping huge tags reading
"DEMO DISPLAY BOX -- NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL 1999" on boxes of Windows 98.
McAdams disputes his bosses accusations. "If he would spend more time
actually working instead of peering over security camera footage for hours on
end, this store might actually turn a profit for a change."
SHERIDAN, WY -- In an unprecedented blow to Linux advocacy, Aaron McAdams, an
employee at the Sheridan Try-N-Save Discount Store, was fired last week.
According to the store's general manager, McAdams was fired because "he
constantly rearranged items on shelves so that Linux-related books and
software boxes would be displayed more prominently than Windows merchandise."
McAdams' boss added, "If he would have spent as much time actually working as
he did hiding Windows books at the back of shelves, he wouldn't have received
the pink slip."
The general manager supplied Humorix with videotapes from the store's
security cameras showing McAdams in action. In one scene, he takes a whole
stack of "...For Dummies" books and buries them in the Cheap Romance section,
an area of the store rarely visited by computer users. In another, McAdams
can be plainly seen setting copies of Red Hat Linux in front of a large,
eye-catching display of various Microsoft products at the front of the
store. Finally, at one point McAdams can be seen slapping huge tags reading
"DEMO DISPLAY BOX -- NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL 1999" on boxes of Windows 98.
McAdams disputes his bosses accusations. "If he would spend more time
actually working instead of peering over security camera footage for hours on
end, this store might actually turn a profit for a change."
Related:
- New Linux Companies Hope To Get Rich Quick (#2)
Don't throw out that old Red Hat Linux 3.0 CD.
A group of entrepreneurs are hording vintage Linux... - saga n.
[WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N
random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told... - BSOD Simulator
Users of Red Hat 6.0 are discovering a new feature that hasn't been widely
advertised:
a Blue Screen of Death simulator. By default, the... - Brief History Of Linux (#25)
By the mid-1990's the Linux community was burgeoning as countless geeks
fled Redmond monopolistic oppression,
Armonk cluelessness, and Cupertino click-and-drool... - Linux Infiltrates Windows NT Demo
SILICON VALLEY,
CA -- Attendees at the Microsoft ActiveDemo Conference... - Affordable Virtual Beowulf Cluster
Every nerd drools over Beowulf clusters,
but very few have even seen one, much less own one... - Freaks In Linux Houses Shouldn't Throw FUD
By Mr. Stu Poor,
technology pundit for the Arkansas "Roadkill Roundup"... - Attack of the Tuxissa Virus
What started out as a prank posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy yesterday has
turned into one of the most significant viruses in computing history.
The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker "Anonymous... - Press Release -- For Immediate Release
Microsoft Corporation,
Redmond, WA ...Virtually all version of Linux (and...
