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Ah, nothing like the classics. For those of you that don’t get the reference, a guy works at the circus cleaning up after the elephants. One day, a friend comes and tells him he has found him a great desk job in the city, good pay and easy work. “What,” the man replies, “and give up show business?”

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Unsolicited manuscripts are also known (somewhat) fondly by editors as The Slush Pile, especially fiction editors. A favorite pastime of editors is to trade around some of the more incredibly bad submissions they receive. This is done more out of a sense of sanity self-preservation then malice, going through the slush pile is thankless work.

This gag originally was going to run as Gwen’s introduction way back when, with Gwen as the poop scooper. It was decided by wiser heads that our first female lead character shouldn’t be introduced shoveling excrement, and so we bumped her a few notches up the food chain to marketing. In hindsight, it was absolutely the right decision, but the gag was worth recycling. Sometime, I’ll stick some of Randy’s concept art of Gwen as lowly intern up on the voting incentive…

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One of the interesting results of the Linux kernel staying with GPLv2 is that it is unclear how distributions will be able to package up GPLv3 software moving forward. Maybe nothing will happen. Maybe it’ll be a mess. Computers probably won’t explode, but stranger things have happened…

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As much fun as it is to have the animals bash each other week in and out, it’s time to end the mayhem for now. That’s not to say that there won’t be the occasional dig, and there’s plenty of external foes to do battle with, but for now the gang at the Hole are going to model the behavior that they wish the real open source community would adopt…