An extraordinary request

Hey everybody, I thought I’d share an E-Mail I wrote recently. I was inspired by Jezra’s letters to Dell and Google, but didn’t actually have the patience to find out Steve Ballmers postal address. So I just sent it to his Microsoft e-mail address. I’m still waiting for an answer and will update this post if he eventually responds…

To: steveb@microsoft.com
Subject: An extraordinary request

Hello Mr. Ballmer,
my name is Julian Aloofi, I'm a 17 years old pupil, currently living in
Germany, and interested in PCs and especially programming. I'm a very
satisfied user of Windows Vista (I'll upgrade to 7 with my next computer
soon, I promise!) and generally tinkering with the .NET framework.

Well, why am I writing to you?
I heard rumors on the internet that you threw a chair at one of your
employees. Maybe you heard about this as well yet. I don't even want to
talk about whether this was right or not, it's your chair after all.
However, my chair recently broke, and while I was looking for a new
chair, I thought that the best chair I could think of possibly is this
very chair. If someone owns a good office chair, who but not the CEO of
Microsoft?
Would I ask too much if I'd ask you to send this chair to me? I know it
probably doesn't mean much to you, but just imagine how happy you'd make
a small german boy. If you're interested, write me back so I can tell
you the postal address. My eternal gratefulness is of course guaranteed.

Best regards and a happy and successful New Year,
Julian Aloofi

 

PS: Yes, I'm serious!

I just hope he doesn’t find out about the operating system I actually use…

By the way, I made some new packages for eViacam. They should contain no errors, regarding the application itself and packaging guidelines compliance. You can find 32-bit packages on my fedorapeople space. 64-bit users will have to rebuild the latest SRPM for now. If you try them and something breaks, please let me know!

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