HP's Dunn as Newsweek Cover Girl

theodp writes "In The Boss Who Spied on Her Board, Newsweek likens HP Chairwoman Pattie Dunn's attempts to escape culpability with her I-knew-nothing defense to both a head of state, who wants 'plausible deniability' while ordering an assassination plot, and to Henry II, who had the Archbishop of Canterbury removed by simply muttering 'Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?' in front of his knights."

When in Rome, etc.

[ScentCone]

This is slashdot. Please do not cite movie-style 'head of state asks-without-asking for an assination mission' analogies, or refer to centuries-old British church smack-downs. If you can't describe this in terms of chair throwing, iPod-killing, or some form of infringement, the message is lost.

Ugh.

[writermike]

Ugh. Too many words. It's much easier for me to buy another brand until this calms down.

Re:When in Rome, etc.

[HerrEkberg]

Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair?

My 2 cents as an impartial observer...

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell is Liza Minnelli [msn.com] doing in a story about HP?

Re:msnbc article not compatible with Firefox

[Pink Tinkletini]

Looks fine here in Safari. Maybe it's time for you to upgrade.

Hey

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anybody have a stream of today's emergency board meeting?

The equipment is in place, isn't it?

Re:Turbulent

[trewornan]

Sorry, I'm not American so it didn't occur to me that school-kid knowledge of history would be regarded as elitism.

Last paragraph

[rking]

Right at the end of the (7 page) article:

Update: A source close to Hewlett-Packard tells Newsweek that HP's emergency board meeting was adjourned late in the afternoon on Sunday (ET) without any decision being reached on the possible resignation of Patricia Dunn as chairman. The source, who requested anonymity because of the confidentiality of internal board proceedings, said the HP board would reconvene late Monday afternoon.

So I guess they're still leaking :)

Re:msnbc article not compatible with Firefox

[MustardMan]

If I said that, I would have been modded troll. (watch this one get an offtopic).

Actually, scratch that - watch this one get a +4 funny then a -2, overrated, -2, troll, -1 offtopic, and REALLY fuck my karma.

Re:msnbc article not compatible with Firefox

[StarsEnd]

Thx...Im using Windows XP....that may be the difference.

Fatwa

[Anonymous Coward]

The ruling to throw the office chair and its parts -- armrest, back, and wheels -- is an individual duty for every worker who can do it in any office in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the carpet and the cubicle from their grip, and in order for the seats to move out of all the lands of Microsoft, defeated and unable to threaten any programmer.

This is in accordance with the words of Ballmer, "and fight the chairs all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Microsoft."

Put a fork in her...

[jbonik]

she's Dunn.