A letter from "Edgar"

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we have been nothing if not patient with "Edgar", but when he took a leading role in the New Company we had to finally admit that he has gone too far, and that he probably won't be turned into an ally against evil.  His wife, the former GPD operative "Natasha" has been trying to get us to accept him for what he is and to not vilify him, and for the most part we have respected her wishes out of respect for the great work she did for us as our operative, even though she was responsible for much of the chaos around her husband.  Anyway, today we received a letter from "Edgar" and we thought we should share it here:

Benevolent Members of the Board of Dictators:

It has come to my attention that you are displeased with my decision to abandon my patented churros and re-enter the evil office products business, to which I can only answer that I am sorry that you are disappointed with me.  I tried to join you, but you would not have me.  For love of my wife I abandoned my addiction to brads and hole punches and evil stickers and tried to make it as a strait-laced do-gooder, but that is simply not me.  I happily worked to thwart the evil that the New Company was pushing on the world, and I even started a blog to show you that I could do as much good in the world as you could, but none of it was good enough for you, and so I have decided that, in order to rule the world properly, I will have to choose different allies.

Please do not assume that because I am heading up an organization dedicated to the dissemination of evil office products that I am evil--that is an unjustified leap of logic.   While I may be now a purveyor of evil, it is simply the next logical step in world domination, and I have lost quite a bit of time thanks to the meddling of your operatives, including the one who became my beloved wife.  If it weren't for her, I wouldn't even be sending you this letter of explanation.  She insists that I treat you civilly.  I don't want to air my dirty laundry, but I will say that my return to the New Company did put our relationship on rocky ground, but I think I have convinced "Natasha" that Rule By Edgar is more important than ridding the world of evil in the interim.

I am being nice to you, for now, out of respect for my wife.  I'll even give you a six week window in which to make me the leader of the world without any adverse consequences.  I'll even suspend brad production and hole punch distribution once I am in power, so I won't even be working at cross purposes with you.  It's in your best interest to surrender to me and give up your silly dreams for the New Future before you provoke me to anger.

With love,

Cornelius "Edgar" Quisling, CEO of the New Company

For those who might be wondering, we will not give in to "Edgar"'s demands, but if he wants us to we can help with his churro business.