"Gertrude", "Jack", and the Parent Corporation

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not excited to report that we can finally cross a couple of threats off our list because of some recent reports.  According to IRS filings this year, the Parent Corporation is officially dissolved.  A rare joint press release a few weeks ago from the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch and the Reformed Brotherhood of the Hole Punch expressed regret for the end of an era but stated that "Jack" had become senile and was no longer worthy of their devotion or respect, and that he had been "contained".  We asked our operatives to look into what "contained" might mean, and what we found was that they intend to have him committed to a UBHP mental health facility in Cody, Wyoming.  This particular facility has a 0% recidivism rate, due at least in part to the fact that no patients have ever come out alive.  The UBHP and the RBHP seem to be united in this case, but it appears that they still have significant differences, and while they still want to worship the hole punch they don't feel the need to evangelize on a large scale.

Coincidentally (we believe) our operatives have also just learned that "Gertrude" is dumping its core every few minutes, and that it must have rewritten its code too much, rendering it useless.  The panel of experts had been disbanded three months ago, so for now the New Company is working in fits and starts, and getting less and less effective.  We don't expect to defeat the New Company quite so easily, but it is encouraging that their promising artificially-intelligent CEO software seems to have run its course.  We're not absolutely certain yet, but it appears there was a correlation in the time when "Gertrude" stopped functioning well and when we announced that we had determined that "compatible toner" was, indeed, evil.  This implies, but does not yet prove, that the New Company had something to do with this recently discovered evil.

We hope to have more updates soon, but for now please commemorate the day we were able to cross three former enemies off our most wanted list!