The problem with the net is that the hordes of people who do not and may never understand metaphors or the rhetorical history of phrases such as "X is dead" will swamp you every time with their literalism. At some point you have to filter them out and trust that the people who are able to understand have understood and move on.
The idea I got from reading few of the responses was that some people chose to only read the title and copy-paste random fragments totally out of context to show Microsoft's not going broke anytime soon. Doh. That was never pg's argument.
