Salting the Bones | Linux Today

Salting the Bones

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 29, 2009

[ Thanks to helios for this link.
]

“Ahem…

“I think we, at least on some scale, have disproved that. Flash
Forward to 2dBoy and Frictional. While we agreed not to divulge
some fairly intimate statistics about each company sales, we are
able to, and did report at the time, that Linux Users slayed all
previous sales records for each game.

“See, some myths and even some cultures believe to stop a spirit
or ghost from haunting you, someone must unearth their remains and
pour salt on their bones…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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