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Just re-read the article, it isn't censored, so beware if you click on the link!!! Sorry about that, I just scanned the article and didn't read it through. Rob Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just a light hearted post which you all might enjoy... A couple of years > ago before I exorcised my PC of the beast of Redmond (i.e. installed > Linux and wiped Windows), I signed up as a Microsoft OEM Reseller. > Every so often I get things through from them (the last thing I got was > a pebble!). > > Anyway, today a silver jiffy bag came through the post. I opened it up > and found a bag of jelly beans. I think the blurb said something about > "Help yourself to more customers". > > I just wonder if they realise that I now just use Linux at home and > they're trying to bump me off with poisoned jelly beans? > > I thought it was a bit of a strange thing for them to send. The best > thing I've had through was probably a box of coloured pencil crayons, > one of which was half the length. That one was from Sun to advertise > their Opteron servers. > > All this marketing junk has made me wonder... would Google send a chair > to Steve Balmer (see > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/) as some sort > of marketing exercise? > > Rob > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html