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Going Microsoft-Free, Saying Buh-Bye to McBride

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 2009

“McBride’s Next Job

“To which John Helms added: “Here’s hoping his next job is one
of the following:

“Being paid $1.25 an hour to stand in line for lobbyists.
Working the late shift at 7/11.
Washing cars down at ‘Big Bob’s Rusty Iron’ used car lot.
Wearing a tight short skirt, spiked high heels, a wig, and …
waving at passing cars.”

Further, “my greatest pleasure over the last several years was the
moment I was able to advise a customer Increase Customer Sales with
Email Marketing — Free Trial from VerticalResponse to dump their
old SCO server and move to Linux,” Helms added. “They did. :)”

TuxRadar picked up on the story too, and so did Digg, where more
than 50 comments quickly appeared.”

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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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