Monday, June 24, 2013

The Revenge of our New (Former) Editor

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not embarrassed at the course of events over the last couple of weeks.  Many of you have been wondering why we haven't posted since we revealed that we had let our former editor go as she had been trying to prevent us from posting anything to this forum.  Unfortunately, since we imprisoned Gertrude in the GNU Public Dungeons we have been unable to return to this forum to post anything.  Gertrude, as she was being interviewed before her imprisonment, must have sensed that we were on to her and planted in this forum a time-release malware that would steal all of our posts and send them instead to search engines.  We discovered her sedition a few days later, but it has taken us until now to clean up the mess.  Gertrude was, apparently, a much more formidable enemy than we gave her credit for.  To make matters worse, we found out that somehow she was able to put Greta in her prison cell, leaving us looking a bit foolish for having hired her, let her ruin our blog for a while, and then not even been able to capture her properly.  Greta has been released into house arrest, just to make sure there's nothing funny going on.

The bottom line, however, is that at the GPD we still believe nothing if not that we should help those in need of help, but we have learned an important lesson about checking out our employees more thoroughly.  You would have thought that the policies we put in place after the Quisling incident would have been sufficient, but evil seems to find a way.  We'll be reviewing our policies, but initial reports suggest that it was the fact that we didn't know that Gertrude or Greta existed prior to our run-in with them that allowed her to game our system.


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