Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Kintaro on 2 April 2003, 11:11
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http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/24/1219237.shtml?tid=16 (http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/24/1219237.shtml?tid=16)
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X11, you have to post April fool's jokes on the first of april.
for the terminally bored:
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Cambridge, MA, April 1 - "We've learned that only a few nut-case programmers ever alter source code, so we have developed a new license, the GSSPL [GNU Shared Source Public License] to meet the needs of the vast majority of computer users," said Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman at a press conference earlier today. He also said, "The fact that Microsoft is now the FSF's prime sponsor has nothing to do with this decision."
A smiling Bill Gates shook hands with Stallman in a conference room at the newly renamed Bill and Melinda Gates Center for Free Software, formerly known as the "Free Software Foundation office."
Gates used this opportunity to introduce a new Microsoft product: GNU/FreeWindowsXP, which can be freely downloaded from GNU/Microsoft.com starting today for only $149 and will be freely available in retail stores next week for only $199. He also said we can expect a replacement for Microsoft Office by the end of the year.
"Our new desktop office suite is going to be called Microsoft GNU/eMacsOffice," Gates said. "We have replaced our obsolete 'point and click' user interface with a new one so sophisticated you don't even need a mouse or other pointing device to use it, just a keyboard for your desktop or laptop or a handwriting recognition program for your tablet PC."
Gates attempted to show screenshots of the new product using a beta version of its new GNU/FreePowerPoint module, but the tablet PC he was using displayed nothing but a blank black screen with lines of white text on it. "We had hoped to show you this exciting demonstration not only of GNU/eMacsOffice but also our new Microsoft GNU/Hurd kernel, but it looks like we have a little bit more work to do before it's ready for prime time," said Gates.
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It's worse since X11 is many hours ahead of us - making him even further behind in his own timezone...
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yeah, i think he's 15 hours ahead of this forum's time? that's a rough guess, so an april fool joke at 20 past 4 in the afternoon of april the second is kind of pushing it!
still, he's got pretty close if you look at it another way, i mean it has been known for him to be much more than a few hours ahead of or behind his time! :D
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Fuck you all!