. . I really just couldn't resist.

"As an integrator of business systems for two decades, currently basing systems on Windows XP/2000, OS/2, Unix and Linux, I clearly see you are either a journalistic whore (lying for pay), completely ignorant of the subject about which you write, or are a total idiot. Most likely, all of the above.

So IBM, which has invested well over $2 BILLION in Linux (and claims to have pretty much recouped their investment) and run major advertising campaigns promoting Linux, and which runs Linux on everything from Pentium PCs to S390 mainframes costing more than you hope to earn in your lifetime, is an organization of elitist communist anti-capitalist geeks? Somehow I have a difficult time reconciling that description with IBM's carefully crafted public image.

Since you have successfully destroyed whatever credibility you might have hoped to have in technology journalism, I urge you try once again to get a real reporting job in the women's wear industry. Perhaps they've lowered their standards since last you applied. We will all pray that they have.

www.aaxnet.com"

. . I was just hoping to send her back for another ego bashing by the real experts. Women's wear is an absolutely merciless field of work.

And yes, I did get your point:).