Thanks to Antonio Ognio, I now have one of them creepy floating disembodied head things, which people seem to be calling hackergotchis. Antonio wanted me to pass along that he’s willing to do the same for other artistically challenged Planet Debian bloggers like myself. Gracias!
While I’m on the subject of Planet Debian, I haven’t heard from a single one of the 80 people who complained that my blog was nothing but Progeny advertising content. The handful of people who did comment yesterday were positive and seemed to further suggest that I should keep doing what I’ve been doing.
So, this is the last call: If you have a complaint about what I’ve been blogging about, please drop me an email and tell me. If you’re afraid of getting on my bad side, you can leave a comment anonymously here, though I should point out that anyone who has been reading my blog for a while should know by now I have a pretty good sense of humor,
and a self-deprecating streak too.
Why, just the other day, in a staff meeting, some of the employees were complaining about how cold it was, and I offered to go back to my office to get my stack of old business plans, so we could burn them for warmth. On second thought, I probably shouldn’t have said that. Maureen O’Gara might quote me out of context.. Oops. Sorry, Jolene, we’re probably on her shit list now. Oops, I shouldn’t have fucking said that either. Oops again.
Ok, I’ve officially gone overboard, but I hope I’ve made my point.
Maybe the reason you haven’t heard from those 80 complainers is because those Ubuntists are now boycotting you.
Indeed, the people who actually complained realized that if they were to contact you with identifying information it would become apparant that all of them are canonical employees….
Enough of these insane conspiracy theories. Part of the reason that Scott felt justified in barring pure-Progeny content is that less than a week before, he had removed Jeff Waugh’s blog altogether for pure Ubuntu content. Both Scott and Jeff and Canonical employees.
Seems Ian is now back on Planet Debian. Good, I hope they reinstate Jeff Waugh as well. The whole holier-than-thou anti-business attitude is silly.
Let’s hope that’s the end of it. I’d like to hear about anything related to Debian, whether it’s Progeny, Ubuntu or whatever comes next.
Personally, I felt rather annoyed by some of the posts, because they were just pure reposts of press releases and other marketing hot air. If I wanted that, I’d read the press section of Progeny’s website: if there are interesting, technical posts about CL, please post them here by all means. I come to Planet Debian to read ramblings from hackers, not from marketing departments.