Comic Transcript

ALICE: OK, Phil, for the next few weeks Marketing will be walking af ine line. The Boss wants to know why consumers are buying less software.

PHIL: Well that's easy. We're in a recession.

ALICE: That might be true, but it's not easy. The Boss doesn't like that word, and anyone who uses it in his presence is... punished.

PHIL: That's going to make this conversation rather difficult. "Recession" is the right answer.

ALICE: Marketing isn't interested in the RIGHT answer. Marketing is interested in the BEST answer.

PHIL: In that case I can only think of one course of action.

ALICE: It's Linux's fault.

THE BOSS: I knew it!