Gnomemeeting Closes the Source

daja77 writes "There is an announcement on Gnomemeeting stating that they are closing the source to be able to support tcpa and palladium. The gnomemeeting PRO version will be available for $50 tomorrow and GPL version will be discontinued."

Comments

For fuck's sake

[chrisseaton]

Give it a rest, Taco!

Re:For fuck's sake

[Anonymous Coward]

I second that. This is just fucking stupid at this point. If the stories were at least plausible, that would help, but they are just stupid. And the new TCP/IP RFC repeated 3 times was another stupid fucking move that only demonstrates the lack of creativity they have in screwing with people.

Re:For fuck's sake

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

Come on, it's funny.

It WAS funny.

Re:For fuck's sake

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Give it a rest, Taco!"

How long have you been around? This happens every year on April 1st. If it bothers you, then mark April 1st on your calendar next year to take a day off from Slashdot.

Re:For fuck's sake

[NanoGator]

"And the new TCP/IP RFC repeated 3 times was another stupid fucking move that only demonstrates the lack of creativity they have in screwing with people."

Actually, it demonstrates that he listens to everybody's whining about the infrequent story dupes. He's not making fun of himself, he's winding up the overly sensitive ppl out there whose lives depend on Slashdot providing fresh content 20 times a day.

Re:For fuck's sake

[eht]

the problem is though, that there is some real news posted on some april 1st's, and it's sometimes a bitch to sort it out

Re:For fuck's sake

[Enrico Pulatzo]

Do you realize you're asking a man who goes by "Taco" to listen to reason?

For real

[secolactico]

The sad part is, this is not an April Fools.

Re:For real

[bazmonkey]

Yes it is. 1) Can't happen. GPL guarantees stuff like this couldn't.

2) It's April fool's day. Trust us.

3) Oh, by the way, did you hear about that IPv4 header bit???

I love you Taco!

[Saint]

What a refreshing bit of news!

enough

[minaguib]

is enough. There's something magical every april 1st that turns /. into a garbage can

Re:enough

[WD]

Is is really that much better the rest of the year??

Re:enough

[jagripino]

Dude... It's supposed to be funny! Enjoy it!

Really, it may not be you kind of humour, but I'm having fun with the discussions on /. today.

Re:enough

[RollingThunder]

Since you know it happens - why not just take a day off of Slashdot?

Re:enough

[dschuetz]

Since you know it happens - why not just take a day off of Slashdot?

Because they continue to post some real stories, too.

The novelty of April Fool's jokes (a fun RFC, an explanation of pigeon-ranking technology, etc.) wears really thin when there are a dozen of them in a row. Especially so when you have to figure out which stories are real in the middle of the other junk.

Slashdot is in a strange position with regards to these hoaxes. It's not, generally, a creator of jokes, but instead publicizes others' jokes for fun and comments. So, by definition, we see a whole lot more of them here simply because /. is an aggregator of other stories, by definition.

What was suggested last year was that there be one or two April Fools' "quickies" with links to a bunch of funny jokes, rather than trying to pass each and every stupid hoax off as a real story. Obviously, that's not happening this time.

On the other hand, I have to admit grudging satisfaction with the IP RFC evil-bit bit, since the joke is no longer the RFC story, but the fact that it keeps coming up.

I also think the slew of really off-the-wall Ask Slashdot stories is pretty good. They're crazy enough that you can recognize them right off as April Fool's jokes, but reasonable enough that they're actually generating some fun discussion.

But, really, the "post a different hoax every hour" model was broken last year, and it's just as broken this year.

Re:enough

[urmensch]

you should think about using that homepage thingy

Re:enough

[dschuetz]

Because they continue to post some real stories, too.

which version of /. were you brought up on? must have been before the ipv4 changes; slightly after gentoo migrated to rpm...

Assuming for the moment that you weren't being sarcastic (it's late in the day for me so my detector isn't operating at full capacity), some stories posted today that appear to be legit:

* Humor in Times of War
* Can You Trust Microsoft on Security?
* Apple 12" Powerbook Review
* Peter Jackson Remaking King Kong

Some of the off-the-wall Ask Slashdot entries are obviously posted as jokes, but make interesting discussion anyway:

* CD-R Scents (I've always wondered this myself)
* "Corporation" loophole to music sharing
* Negative Skeptics
* Eyes as Cameras
* Possessed Technology (who hasn't had some?)

The "hoaxes," themselves, are pretty poor this year. None of them, really, pass the first glance test, and half the fun of being taken in is getting halfway down an RFC or something before you realize you've been had. The stories today (BSD distros merging, Enlightenment 1.0, etc.) are so far off as to not even invite gullibility.

About time

[Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]

Its about time somebody closed the code. All the bugs kept getting out and running wild. Fifty dollars seems like a fair price not having to put up with any more loose bugs.

This must be a joke!

[TopShelf]

I won't believe this story until it's been posted by CmdrTaco 3 or 4 more times today...

Look! There they go!

[Limburgher]

The monkeys! They aer flying out of my butt!

Seriously, tho, can't discontinue the GPL version of anything. That's like /.'ing Freenet.

follow-up april fools story

[frenetic3]

Linux Developer Gets Laid

and do what?

[SweetAndSourJesus]

go outside?

now who's joking with who here?

Re:and do what?

[RollingThunder]

I wasn't talking crazy talk now... I just mean something like go spend the day on kuroshin or fark or something other than slashdot.

Outside? Gods, that's... that's just... inconceivable.

Re:April 1st

[ohchaos]

you think it's a bad day for viewing slashdot.... you should try moderating it..... *sigh*

Junis?

[stratjakt]

Do you remember him? Remember his harrowed tale of the afghani technology void? Remember how the editors looked like a bunch of absolute morons?

THATs what a hoax is about, making the victims of said hoax look like fools. Thats what april fools day is about.

Not telling stupid unfunny jokes.

Face it. The trolls run this joint. You can't compete with them on their level. I mean, if "gnome is closed source!" and "evil bit!" are the best you got, well then just give it up and go back to your anti-america flamebaiting.

Re:Lame

[ultramk]

This is so far fetched they could have said that the president has been replaced by a babbling ape and more people would believe it.

...so you're implying that hasn't already happened?

m-

Re:not funny

[swordgeek]

Just a point here. While it's true that /. posted a link to an April Fools joke, the joke itself is GnomeMeeting's. The *BSD merger is the same thing.

So in its own way, /. isn't actually playing ANY April Fool's jokes--they're just going about their business as usual, and the rest of the world is providing the material.

Re:Taco

[mark_lybarger]

Newsflash dude: All Your Whines Are Belong to Us.

DUKE NUKEM FOREVER GOES GOLD!!!!

[wickedj]

Here's the link

Mod Points on April Fool's Day...

[plnrtrvlr]

I guess the jokes on me isn't it?

Why

[Anonymous Coward]

How come no one posted anything about the new security RFC,3514?

Re:Lame

[idfrsr]

Actually current experts believe that he was replaced specifically by a chimpanzee.

Curious george... I just haven't figured out who the man in the yellow hat is....

The scariest part...

[jjn1056]

I believed it for a few seconds.

Having just returned from a focus group where a bunch of VP level types thought that Paladium was something they'd be willing to pay $500 bucks a box for.

MOD PARENT UP!!!!!!!

[Picass0]

tsia

fooled me

[g4dget]

I actually thought this was the April's Fool story on the GnomeMeeting home page :-)

Another good example of KDE/GNOME collaboration and interaction

Who would have thought...

[Alternity]

that at one point the most serious part of /. would become the poll!

for fucks sake .....

[trouser]

1. You can't close source a GPL program. It's a violation of the license. Surely this applies to the original author as much as anybody else. Besides, all previous releases of the code are still available under the GPL so all it would take is for keen developers to hijack the project and it breathe new life into it. Give it up for the GPL.

2. I hate April 1st. I hate Slashdot on April 1st. I hate that where I live it is 10am April 2nd but I'm still reading these stupid April Fool's Day stories. The Slashdot editors seem to live in this little USA bubble immune from awareness of the outside world. I'm sick of polls that are not only stupid but also irrelevent to me because there is no answer suitable for a person who doesn't live in America. And most of all, every time I type './' at a shell prompt I ask myself, 'Where did those bozos get slashdot from anyway, it's clearly dotslash ?' I propose that right thinking people the world over unite in opposition to Slashdot, that we rewrite slash code in Python (I really don't like Perl. I've used it. It's ok. There's better ways of getting the same thing done. It reads like line noise. I think Larry Wall is high on goof balls. I'm not trying to start some kind of Python v. Perl flame war. ), register dotslash.org and run a fairly moderated open minded news site with no Microsoft advertisements, an acceptance of the exitence of the world outside America, no repeats of the previous day's stories, fewer stories about miniscule updates to the Linux kernel, less Apple brown nosing, even more Microsoft bashing and, most important of all, it will be 'News for Geeks'. I find the term Nerd highly pejorative.

Sorry. I really needed to get that off my chest.