Linux Desktop Standard Running in Circles
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday January 21, 2003 @01:12AM
from the Fear-the-Penguin dept.
Matthew writes: Executives at the California headquarters of RedHat Linux have been stumped by the behavior of coders in the Desktop Environment division. New coders brought in to assist in the migration to KDE have the original Enlightenment coders going very rapidly in circles.
“At first, we had Enlightenment, and that was it. We had a few apps, we were happy. Everything was pretty. People liked looking at us, but admittedly we didn’t do much.”
“When the executives finally decided that they had to introduce the K Desktop Environment or start loosing ground to other distributions, hired six KDE coders and introduced them to the cubicles.
“It wasn’t long before the KDE coders had the Enlightment coders off on a tangent in an attempt to migrate to some mythical place. They’ve been going in circles for weeks now, not even stopping for cokes. It’s weird, and we don’t really know when it’s going to end. We’ve lost complete control.
Subject:oo
It is 'losing' not loosing. Your four rating has been dropped to a two.
Comment by English Major — January 21, 2003 @ 10:04 am
Subject:Re: oo
Wow, a penny-wise pound foolish English editor. You spotted the extraneous zero, a simple typing error, and COMPLETELY MISSED the fact that the entire sentence in which the offensive 'o' appears is technically, in grammatical terms, a sentence fragment.
Comment by Tyson — January 21, 2003 @ 11:46 am
Subject:Re: oo
I'll be sure and send you a warranty refund for the story.
Comment by Matthew — January 21, 2003 @ 4:15 pm
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Worse yet, every time an airplane flies overhead, the entire staff falls over.
Comment by Michael — January 22, 2003 @ 2:22 am
Subject:Re: Wow!
I'll be able to add this check for $0.00 to my similarly valued check from Sprint and my $0.00 Invoice marked past due from AT&T.
Comment by Tyson — January 22, 2003 @ 12:34 pm