Actually, I got to renewing my 10years+ readership and subscription to Linux Journal when the USDollar hit an unusual low just the other week. But I didn’t, quite, you see.

So, seeing the ed’s are some answers short on this issue, I guess they aren’t all quite as blogospherically savvy as the tiring Doc implies but rather just so many blog-eds (however you like to pronounce that:)… and they are welcome to keep airmailing the rest of my glossy copies for the duration of my present subscription, but that will be that.

Buh-bye, LJ. It was nice knowin’ ya, while the goin’ was good. There IS a difference between funny and offensive. Go back down to your corner, now.

And as for that Quriously SOL company, they never had me as even a prospective customer. So they can go down wherever and whenever they want. But Linux Journal DID have me as an ACTUAL customer, for well over a decade. Think about that, in re-math class.

@Archie: Maybe you mean like the EV1 “head surfer” guy got talked about – you know, the sole sucker who fell for tSCOg’s Linux licence scam and lost the business over it? As you probably know, tSCOg is also in deep caldera now.

No, Linux Journal has gone the sorry way of John C Dvork and Maureen Embarass. No, I do not want fries with that. Thanks.

Oh, and I will keep all my nerdy author’s rights to myself. (C)ause they’re mine.

If you are truly offended by this ad, You need to quit talking about it. This ad was designed to get people talking about the company. Given the response in 2000, you had better believe the both the company and the magazine knew exactly what would happen. Bad publicity is better than no publicity. I had no idea that QSOL was even out there before the ad. Now, I know that they make servers. In that regard, the ad worked. The more people complain publicly about them the more effective the ad is. They are trying to get talked about and you are doing exactly what they want.

I hope that the women at QSOL wise up and sue the corporation for sexual discrimination. Clearly, the men of QSOL think that the women there offer nothing to them. That ad helps to reaffirm the sexist nature of that industry.