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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."
Give it a rest, Taco!
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.
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I won't believe this story until it's been posted by CmdrTaco 3 or 4 more times today...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Is is really that much better the rest of the year??
Dude... It's supposed to be funny! Enjoy it!
/. today.
Really, it may not be you kind of humour, but I'm having fun with the discussions on
Linux Developer Gets Laid
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
Since you know it happens - why not just take a day off of Slashdot?
go outside?
now who's joking with who here?
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
you think it's a bad day for viewing slashdot.... you should try moderating it..... *sigh*
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.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Since you know it happens - why not just take a day off of Slashdot?
/. is an aggregator of other stories, by definition.
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
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.
How come no one posted anything about the new security RFC,3514?
Because they continue to post some real stories, too.
/. were you brought up on? must have been before the ipv4 changes; slightly after gentoo migrated to rpm...
which version of
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.
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.
Peace, or Not?
that at one point the most serious part of /. would become the poll!
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
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.
Now wash your hands.