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I like your second explanation. A cynical person would surmise that HP knowingly hired Apotheker to be a sacrificial lamb. A lamb that would make a few unpopul

I like your second explanation. A cynical person would surmise that HP knowingly hired Apotheker to be a sacrificial lamb. A lamb that would make a few unpopular board-supported decisions (to the public and stockholders) yet leave the board's hands clean once that lamb was fired.

shithead 15y ago
> sacrificial lamb Scapegoat, in the vernacular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating : a she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland ... They'll make it gold, and probably spare the sex change ...