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What they fired there smartest employee? On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > > For those that missed it, the USB group (www.usb.org) maintains a database > of companies that are part of the group, with contacts for each company. > > Evidently, either Tux secretly works at Microsoft, or someone hacked the > site, and listed Tux as one of Microsoft's contacts, for the "USB-IF > Representative". His contact information was listed thusly: > > Company Name: Microsoft Corporation > Name: Mr. Tux The penguin > Title: Linux Mascot > Email: tux at linux.org > Phone#: 555.1212 > Fax#: 555.1212 > > > Apparently, tux has been fired, or the site was repaired, because he's > been taken off the contact list. > > Tux was found at this link: > > http://www.usb.org/app/db/search/contacts/by_company?comp_id=1118 > > > -- > PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt > ------------------------------------------------------ > Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek > derekm at mediaone.net | derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net > ------------------------------------------------------ > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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