Progress!

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not proud of our operatives, especially when they successfully complete a mission and we are finally at liberty to discuss their accomplishments openly.  We wish this was one of those times, but you will have to be satisfied with our telling you that they have recently completed one of the most dangerous missions we have ever undertaken, and that the New Company is scrambling to react.  While we can't talk about the details of how we got this information, we will share some of the information that is causing them to panic.

For some time now we have had our suspicions that "Gertrude" is not what she claims to be, especially since we discovered that the woman we thought was "Gertrude" was just a proxy to confuse us and was discarded when she became too much of a liability.  Recently we discovered that "Gertrude" is not a person at all, but a title reserved for those who undertake to lead the New Company.  They thought it would be funny for an organization as misogynistic as they are to give their leaders a title that sounded like a woman's name, and they thought it would keep us busy for a while.  They were right, in that it kept us busy, but they were wrong in that it was funny.  Making fun of or discriminating against half of the human race because they are different is not funny, and never has been.  One of the biggest dangers in casual use of evil office products is that these messages of hate and discrimination are often subtly introduced to us, and studies have shown that when these ideas are inculcated into us that we often start discriminating against women or accepting such discrimination as harmless.

Anyway, back to the main point of this post.  Our operatives recently discovered that not only is "Gertrude" not a name but a title but also that, at least since the beginning of this year, there is not even a person who bears the title.  "She" has been, for the last 8 months, a computer algorithm running on a server in "Gertrude's" office.  The secret has been known by many of the senior management at the New Company, which is why our revelation of this fact is causing so much confusion among the line managers and the individual contributors.  Many of them have begun to doubt the justice of a cause in which the senior management has to trick them into believing something untrue, and hopefully we can persuade some of them to abandon evil and leave the New Company.  We may even get a few to support us as the GPD has always been open and never asked our supporters to believe in a person who never existed!