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IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wish-it-was-a-cheesecake dept.

GDI Lord writes "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox team a cake for the release of Firefox 2! "P.S.: No, it was not poisoned" " That they know of anyway.

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  1. The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    but they didn't have time, seeing how they were too busy building a better browser! Good night, everybody!

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    1. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by mnmn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Isnt it obvious? They since they just released IE7 they want a cake back.
      Only to include a file in it for the developers at Redmond.

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    2. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by LifesABeach · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Beware of Geeks, Bearing Gifts" - Casandra

    3. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by Atilla · · Score: 3, Funny

      How can Firefox be a better browser? It's only version 2! IE is like, version 7 already!

      *g*

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    4. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by Red+Alastor · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now that it's released and they have some free time, they should send one to the IE team on their deployment day (next patch Tuesday if I'm not mistaken). But in the spirit of open source, they should include the recipe.

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    5. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by NuclearDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Beware of geeks, bare in GIFs."

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  2. itsatrap by Kuciwalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this is the poster child for the "itsatrap" tag.

    1. Re:itsatrap by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Most controversial stories get tagged either "food" or "notfood".

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    2. Re:itsatrap by shadowcode · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't believe this guy, itsatrap!

    3. Re:itsatrap by dr_dank · · Score: 3, Funny

      Focus your fire on that strawberry shortcake. May the frosting be with us all.

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  3. The Browser Wars by BRUTICUS · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just got a whole lot friendlier

    1. Re:The Browser Wars by the_humeister · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a lot better than in the past when we had drive-bys from the IE and Firefox gangs.

    2. Re:The Browser Wars by theMerovingian · · Score: 2, Funny


      Yeah, I was really glad when Microsoft's hit man got busted and all those shootings came to an end.

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    3. Re:The Browser Wars by forgetmenot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Obviously, you didn't read the part where a naked Ballmer jumped out of the cake throwing gobs of it at everyone and screaming "I'll f***** destroy You!"

    4. Re:The Browser Wars by AlecLyons · · Score: 5, Funny

      Browser Wars 2: This time it's amicable

    5. Re:The Browser Wars by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Obviously, you didn't read the part where a naked Ballmer jumped out of the cake throwing gobs
      > of it at everyone and screaming "I'll f***** destroy You!" ...followed by five minutes of him jumping around screaming "Confectioners! Confectioners! Confectioners! Confectioners! Confectioners!".

    6. Re:The Browser Wars by Kelson · · Score: 4, Funny
      Browser Wars 2: This time it's amicable

      Would that make it a "civil" war?

  4. Pie? by BeeBeard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they sure it wasn't just humble pie? :)

    1. Re:Pie? by robyannetta · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Firefox team couldn't eat it because of all the ActiveX ingredients... [ducks]

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    2. Re:Pie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      ActiveX is made of ducks?

  5. Yum, Cake by GiggidyGiggidy · · Score: 5, Funny

    When the cake was opened, the Firefox team found it was not quiet finished and full of bugs.

    1. Re:Yum, Cake by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      "When the cake was opened, the Firefox team found it was not quiet finished and full of bugs."

      The FireFox team decided to return the favor and make them a cake to congratulate them on their recent release of Internet Explorer 7. It is expected to be completed in about four years and have some of the same details in the icing that Opera's cake had already.

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    2. Re:Yum, Cake by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 5, Funny

      The firefox team sent back a plain sponge with a note saying "If you would perfer a more exciting cake, there are a large number of extensions you can get."

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    3. Re:Yum, Cake by Epeeist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Unfortunately the cake they sent had red icing in a large square over the top of it with a black and yellow stripe and a few other bits of coloured icing scattered here and there.

      The cake itself was pretty acid too.

  6. New cake; old ingredients by spookymonster · · Score: 5, Funny

    While the IE team touted the cake as 'new and innovative', after further investigation, the Firefox team discovered that Microsoft had used ingredients that originally appeared in Mozilla cakes several years earlier.

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  7. It takes time.. Give it another year or two by iOsiris · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then the FF team will slowly start disappearing from mysterious causes

  8. And she said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Let them eat cake."

  9. giving back by jmyers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who says Microsoft does not give back to the open source community?

    1. Re:giving back by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unfortunately, the license forbids the firefox team from redistributing the cake.

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    2. Re:giving back by dominator · · Score: 5, Funny

      Like it or not, they'll be distributing "derivative works" of the cake in the next few hours...

      *ducks*

    3. Re:giving back by lostboy2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Heh. Doesn't that qualify as reverse engineering?

    4. Re:giving back by numbsafari · · Score: 3, Funny

      Only if they've been drinking heavily or have the flu.

  10. What they didn't tell you... by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Developers later found that they were unable to open the box containing the cake. When attempting to do so, they kept getting a message from WGA telling them that it was attempting to verify that theirs was in fact a Genuine Windows Cake, then their connection to the server would time out.

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  11. Icing on the cake... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    reads "Thank You for tabbed browsing."

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    1. Re:Icing on the cake... by Zigg · · Score: 2, Funny

      "...to Opera."

    2. Re:Icing on the cake... by gordo3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      haven't there been entire 200 comment discussions about who first came up wtih tabbed browsing? I'm sure, in the end, we will all find out it was actually Al Gore

  12. Secret Ingredients by organgtool · · Score: 2, Funny
    P.S.: No, it was not poisoned

    However, it did contain the pubes of every person on the IE team. The Firefox team plans on retaliating by baking a cake using the dismembered appendages of family members of the IE team. You can thank South Park for that grisly idea. :)
  13. Overheard on IRC by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 4, Funny

    "But did they include the recipe?"

  14. Need more details by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was the icing #FF6666, #6600FF or something else?

    Was there a nice #FF0000 cherry on the top?

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    1. Re:Need more details by lostboy2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, it probably wasn't a cake.

  15. Satan's birthday party by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was it a Ferrari cake, or an Acura cake?

  16. Microsoft lives out an episode of The Simpsons by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · · Score: 5, Funny

    P.S.: No, it was not poisoned

    Montgomery C. Gates: Look at them stuffing their faces, never knowing they're getting closer to the poisoned part of the cake... There IS poison in the cake, right?
    Smithers Balmer: Uh, no sir, our lawyers said that's considered murder.
    Montgomery C. Gates: Damn their oily hides!

  17. Re:Thanks for the ideas by le0p · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I guess Firefox is just going to forward the cake to Opera then?

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  18. Big Black E? by Diamon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seems even the IE team knows that IE is dead.

    As for the ex-lax, bugs, pubes in the cake of course none of that is true. Those things would only be possible if someone at Microsoft actually made the cake, and that's not how MS does things. They knew they couldn't make a good cake so they just went out and bought a cake from someone who already knew how to make one and then stuck their logo on it and called it theirs.

  19. Re:Of course it wasn't poisoned by IdahoEv · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best comment I heard was "Yeah, but did the IE team include the recipe?"

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  20. And being the nerds they are... by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    ""The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox team a cake for the release of Firefox 2!"

    And being the nerds they are, it was baked into the shape of Counselor Troi. The Firefox nerds, now trendy Galactica fans, merely laughed at the nerds who were so out of it as to still love "Star Trek".

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  21. Re:Obligatory comment by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the real obligatory comment is:

    Nice cake...but what's with all the bugs? ;-)


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  22. A cake? by zeromorph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't it have been cookies?

    Ok, maybe they were afraid they don't accept cookies.

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  23. Cake, or a free trip to Australia? by spookymonster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard Microsoft was originally going to book the entire Firefox dev team on Oceanic flight 815....

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    1. Re:Cake, or a free trip to Australia? by bloobloo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cakes on a Plane?

  24. Firefox team sends IE a cake: by DrugCheese · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congratulations on fixing Internet Explorer 3!

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  25. CAKE OR DEATH! by TerranFury · · Score: 2, Funny

    We know the how the Firefox team answered that question.

    When Microsoft runs out of cake, the Opera team will have to politely ask for the chicken.

  26. But the question is... by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... did they accept the cookie ?

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    1. Re:But the question is... by stunt_penguin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well since it was free...... as in cake I guess they did :D

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    2. Re:But the question is... by MyEyesTheyBurn · · Score: 1, Funny

      Beer would have been more appropriate. I'll accept beer for almost any occasion. :-)

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    3. Re:But the question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, it was made by a bakery, and they don't accpet 3rd party cookies.

  27. Re:Obligatory comment by andphi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bugs are a good source of protein. They're features!

  28. Hey isn't that frosting in morse code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The frosting around the edge of the cake looks like morse code - hmmm - my morse is a bit rusty. I think it says "Cancel release and we'll tell you where the antidote is".

  29. Re:Of course it wasn't poisoned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess it was only free as in "free cake".

  30. If I were the FF Team... by Siberwulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have sent a cake back to the IE team. Except I would have included the recipe on exactly how the cake was made along with it.

  31. That they know of anyway. by SydShamino · · Score: 5, Funny

    It secretly contained chopped-up bits of the IE source code. Having ingested it, the entire Firefox team is now legally disqualified from working on open source competitors.

    Or something like that. It's early still.

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  32. The cake is a lie!!!!! by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quick, before someone sees me! Go to my secret website and type LOGIN. Then use my login, Pharmboy. My password is "portal" (without the quotes). At the prompt, type "thecakeisalie" at the prompt without the quotes to activate the hidden camera inside Microsoft! The cake is a lie and this proves it!!!1!

    ;)

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  33. Figures It Would Be A Cake... by tds67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because Bill Gates fears having pies around him.

  34. What I want to know is... by Kelson · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did Opera send them a singing telegram?

  35. Mozilla sent a cake to the Debian team. by LeedsSideStreets · · Score: 2, Funny

    They scraped the logo off and replaced it before they ate it.

  36. Re:EULA under the cake by Psykechan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Underneath the cake is the EULA that starts with:

    By consuming this cake, you agree to the following terms in the cake end user license agreement (EULA)...

  37. And when the Firefox team was sleeping.. by Sloosh13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    thousands of frosted miniature Microsoft employees came streaming out of the cake and took the office...

  38. The perfect greeting card by Jinjuku · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about this, Microsoft stole all our browser ideas and all we got was this lousy cake?