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Very sorry to hear this and I genuinely hope that the canonical neckbeard's family situation improves.

Canonical? Might want to rephrase that. ;)

He was using 'canonical' in the canonical sense!

What about Alan Cox isn't canonical neckbeard?

His employer.

I believe the joke is about him complaining about Fedora, then switching to Ubuntu and now announcing that he's leaving Linux world a day later because of Canonical.

See his last few posts https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts

I suspect that was a joke about him working at Intel as opposed to Canonical (the Ubuntu people).

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