On HP's Mark Hurd: "Assholes Sometimes Get Their Due"

This was the entire content of an email that I just got from a well-informed Silicon Valley insider.   As most of you know by now, the HP Board canned Mark Hurd today because of his allegedly unsavory actions surrounding a sexual harassment claim.  The contrast between this story and my nostalgic post yesterday about the good old days at Hewlett=Packard could not be more striking.

But the events that prompted the above line are a bit more specific.  I had recently sent a draft of a blog...