On 20/11/14 09:41, GypsyRoseLee wrote: > On Thu 20 Nov 2014 at 06:57:03 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 20/11/14 04:01, golinux wrote: >>> On Wed, 11/19/14, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: >>> >>> Subject: the developers have spoken >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 8:11 AM >>> >>> the vote is in. >>> >>> [cut] >>> >>> -------------------------------------------- >>> >>> My beloved Debian, RIP. Very sad that the ride will be over when when >>> Squeeze and Wheezy (and possibly Jessie - jury is still out) get to EOL >>> . . . >>> >>> golinux >>> >>> (soon to be linuxrip) >>> >>> >> You can always start a business telling fortunes - in those countries >> that allow it. > > Dear Mr Ferguson, > > We really must object.
As foretold by the tea leaves - though I 'knew' you were going to say that anyway. > You will surely be aware that our company has the > rights to Fortune Telling throughout most countriea in the world. (sigh) Yes - obtained by humbuggery and magic tricks. > For > you to encourage a random person to encroach on our intellectual > property, patents and trademarks is very questionable. > > Way back in 2004 our Crystall Ball Complex ran a program on the fuiure > of init systems. The first word it churned out was 'ringettoper'. We > were perplexed but, realising the system was running on a Red Hat base, > we changed to Debian and got 'tringeepot', which made a lot more sense > to us. How are those crystal balls working out for you? Do you find it makes jogging difficult? > > Early in 2005 'stemdys' mixed up with 'startup' and 'vinitsys' started > to appear on the Jessie Predictor and we realised we had trouble on our > hands, The question was whether to release our findings to the world or > be cautious. We chose the later course. Half our directors resigned from > the company over the decision. And now write our stunningly successful Astrology supplements for my dear friend Rupert's informative tabloids - as well as performing iridology and chiropractic advice. Thanks again for expanding our enormously successful range of services. > > The management of GypsyRoseLee does not regret the course of action we > took. It is a reliable predictor of the future - not a manipulator of it. > > Our state of the art Palm Reading and Bumps on Head Cloud Cluster is at > present predicting a bright future for Debian using systemd. If everyone > pulls together the coming release could be the best ever. [frown] I note you are not a suitably qualified member of PhrenologistsRUs... though I hesitate to immediately denounce you are as a quack and a snake oil salesman. > > We urge you to refrain from damaging our business. As a mark of good > faith on our part we would like you to be aware that one of our > predictions for 2015 is that corks dangling from strings from the brim > of a hat will be out of fashion, I believe you made similar, patently and demonstrably, false prognostications about our other line of time proven and internationally renowned products - the only tablets with rounded corners. > > Star Gazingly yours, > > GypsyRoseLee. > > You'll get no silver from me. Yours in debian solidarity. Apropos of little (just some that came to me in a vision):- http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201411/2014111901-what-the-gr-outcome-means-for-the-users.html -- Clay - it's here to stay and it's goat-proof! Join my Youtube channel "Out of my tree" ~ Shirley McLaine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546d21bd.5000...@gmail.com
