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Hawaiian Shirts and Booze

My general take on The Register is that the only things it prints which are worth reading is the stuff explicitly identified as fiction, such as Verity Stob and the BOFH. The stuff they don’t identify as fiction is generally fiction anyway, only less funny. But this morning they ran a story which, while a bit thinly-sourced, is at least funny.

When Borland got shirty

However, another myth surrounds that self-same conference which says that a totally different group of Microsoft employees (in no way connected to the honourable techies above) were indulging in stratagems and subterfuge. In the end, their actions left Borland founder Philippe Kahn with no alternative other than to deploy the Hawaiian shirt protocol…

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