That pesky code

We have been running further analysis on the code and have come to some interesting conclusions. We have hesitated to state them in this public forum for fear of being wrong and losing credibility, but the data have been checked and rechecked, and these are certainly the most likely possibilities. It appears that we were correct in that the Parent Corporation has indeed embedded messages in the text of the Shakespearean play; these messages are almost certainly not just random happenstance. This revelation, however, leaves us with some unsettling possibilities:

1. The Parent Corporation stole the time machine Shakespeare has been using and used it to go back in time to embed these messages in the manuscript before it was published in 1727.
2. The Parent Corporation somehow persuaded Shakespeare when he visited the present time to go back and embed these messages in the manuscript.
3. The Parent Corporation has actually existed for much longer than we had believed, and either Shakespeare was a member of the Parent Corporation's Board of Directors (or somehow affiliated with them) or the influence of the Parent Corporation was such that it was able to force Shakespeare to embed these messages

None of these possibilities are particularly palatable, especially the thought that the Parent Corporation may have been operating much earlier than we had thought. We have our best men searching for more details and trying their best to prove or disprove these possibilities. At the GNU Public Dictatorship, after all, we are nothing if not thorough!