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

[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

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...

Re:enough

[WD]

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

follow-up april fools story

[frenetic3]

Linux Developer Gets Laid

Re:enough

[RollingThunder]

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

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*

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.

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.

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