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FSF Debuts "Shared Source" Initiative
matty_x points to coverage at NewsForge of the Free Software Foundation's new 'Shared Source' program. Cynics might call this selling out, but it actually makes a lot of sense for the FSF to listen to customers about what they really would like and benefit from, rather than only to developers and freeloading users. Bravo!
Take a break from Slashdot, and do your *income taxes*. That's what I'm doing, and I sure hope that when the IRS employee sees my fat check dated April 1st, he'll think "this gotta be a joke", and trash my submission entirely.
Aw come on, I opened the article and saw GNU/HURD some where.
gotta be a April fools joke, what next Duke Nukem Forever released ?
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
None of the April Fools stories were funny on the 1st, and they're certainly not funny on the 2nd. Another humourless year from Slashdot..
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - April Fools day was found dead in on the internet this morning. There weren't any more details yet. I'm sure we'll all miss it, even if you weren't a fan of it's work there's no denying it's contribution to lame slashdot stories. Truly an American icon.
Next you're going to tell me that Wil Wheaton is set to get a recurring role on "Enterprise".
"GNU/FreeWindowsXP, which can be freely downloaded from GNU/Microsoft.com starting today for only $149" HAHAHAHA
Microsoft likes money and that makes them evil HA.
Seriously though, next year I think it would be funny if all the April 1st posts would be real.
-fren
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
The only April 1st post that I was looking for today was, "Hail To The King Baby. It's Done. Duke Nukem Forever is Shipping."
Slashdot was off this year ... surely bested by the daily gaim build ;)
i m/gaim/src/buddy.c.diff?r1=1.480&r2=1.481
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ga
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It is official; Google confirms: April Fools is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered April Fools community when a Google search confirmed that Slashdot redership has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all readers. Coming on the heels of a recent Google search which plainly states that April Fools Day has lost more realistic jokes, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. April Fools is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by repeated dupes in the recent Slashdot postings by CmdrTaco.
You don't need to be a Slashbot to predict April Fools' future. The hand writing is on the wall: April Fools faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for April Fools because April Fools is dying. Things are looking very bad for April Fools Day. As many of us are already aware, April Fools continues to lose popularity. Pathetic Slashdot stories flow like a river of blood.
Slashdot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core readers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time readers FortKnox and $$$$$exyGal only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: April Fools is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
April Fools leader CmdrTaco states that there are 70 subscribers of Slashdot. How many readers of Kuro5hin are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Kuro5hin posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 70/5 = 14 Kuro5hin readers. YASS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Kuro5hin posts. Therefore there are about 7 users of YASS. A recent article put Slashdot and its readers at about 80 percent of the April Fools market. Therefore there are (70+14+7)*4 = 364 Slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot reader posts.
Due to the troubles of VA Software, abysmal subscription sales and so on, Slashdot will soon go out of business and will be taken over by Kuro5hin who sell another troubled meta news site. Now all of the other Slashdot sites (YASS) are also dead, their corpses turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that April Fools has steadily declined in Slashdot stories. April Fools is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If April Fools is to survive at all it will be among Halloween and Valentine's Day. April Fools continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, April Fools is dead.
Fact: April Fools Day is dying
The entire open source movement is dying and all you guys can talk about are April fools jokes! Don't you know that the FSF is where all free software is made and now that Microsoft has bought it there won't be anymore. Sure, I thought it was a joke at first, but then I saw all the other articles and realized there's no way slashdot would dedicate the entire day to joke stories. The world must really be going to hell.
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No, the real joke is that every single STINKING DAY FOR THE NEXT WHOLE FREAKING YEAR, we will see the "Evil Bit" story reposted.
Kinda like Ellen Feiss, Natalie Portman, Petrified Hot Grits down your pants, Soviet Russia and All your base...."
In other breaking news; Ellen Feiss switches to VMS....
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