IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team

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IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 26, 2006 @01:16AM 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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The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by 192939495969798999 · 2006-10-26 01:18 · 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 · 2006-10-26 01:53 · 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 · 2006-10-26 02:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Beware of Geeks, Bearing Gifts" - Casandra
3. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by Red+Alastor · 2006-10-26 07:25 · 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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4. Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... by NuclearDog · 2006-10-26 12:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Beware of geeks, bare in GIFs."
  
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itsatrap by Kuciwalker · 2006-10-26 01:18 · Score: 5, Funny

I think this is the poster child for the "itsatrap" tag.
1. Re:itsatrap by nacturation · 2006-10-26 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Most controversial stories get tagged either "food" or "notfood".
  
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2. Re:itsatrap by shadowcode · 2006-10-26 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't believe this guy, itsatrap!
The Browser Wars by BRUTICUS · 2006-10-26 01:19 · Score: 5, Funny

...just got a whole lot friendlier
1. Re:The Browser Wars by the_humeister · 2006-10-26 01:25 · 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 forgetmenot · 2006-10-26 02:52 · 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!"
3. Re:The Browser Wars by AlecLyons · 2006-10-26 03:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Browser Wars 2: This time it's amicable
4. Re:The Browser Wars by Mr.+Bad+Example · 2006-10-26 03:45 · 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!".
5. Re:The Browser Wars by Kelson · 2006-10-26 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Browser Wars 2: This time it's amicable
  
  Would that make it a "civil" war?
Pie? by BeeBeard · 2006-10-26 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Are they sure it wasn't just humble pie? :)
1. Re:Pie? by robyannetta · 2006-10-26 01:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The Firefox team couldn't eat it because of all the ActiveX ingredients... [ducks]
  
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Yum, Cake by GiggidyGiggidy · 2006-10-26 01:23 · 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 · 2006-10-26 02:00 · 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 · 2006-10-26 02:46 · 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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New cake; old ingredients by spookymonster · 2006-10-26 01:23 · 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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It takes time.. Give it another year or two by iOsiris · 2006-10-26 01:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Then the FF team will slowly start disappearing from mysterious causes
giving back by jmyers · 2006-10-26 01:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Who says Microsoft does not give back to the open source community?
1. Re:giving back by Reverend528 · 2006-10-26 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Unfortunately, the license forbids the firefox team from redistributing the cake.
  
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2. Re:giving back by dominator · 2006-10-26 01:53 · 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 · 2006-10-26 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Heh. Doesn't that qualify as reverse engineering?
Icing on the cake... by Capt+James+McCarthy · 2006-10-26 01:29 · Score: 5, Funny

reads "Thank You for tabbed browsing."

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Overheard on IRC by Chris+Pimlott · 2006-10-26 01:31 · Score: 4, Funny

"But did they include the recipe?"
Need more details by Linker3000 · 2006-10-26 01:34 · 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 · 2006-10-26 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Well, it probably wasn't a cake.
Microsoft lives out an episode of The Simpsons by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · 2006-10-26 01:37 · 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!
Big Black E? by Diamon · 2006-10-26 01:39 · 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.
Re:Of course it wasn't poisoned by IdahoEv · 2006-10-26 01:40 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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And being the nerds they are... by krell · 2006-10-26 01:41 · 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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Re:Obligatory comment by pixelpusher220 · 2006-10-26 01:43 · Score: 5, Funny

the real obligatory comment is:

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

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A cake? by zeromorph · 2006-10-26 01:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Shouldn't it have been cookies?
Ok, maybe they were afraid they don't accept cookies.

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But the question is... by Yvanhoe · 2006-10-26 02:09 · Score: 5, Funny

... did they accept the cookie ?

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Re:Obligatory comment by andphi · 2006-10-26 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Bugs are a good source of protein. They're features!
Re:Cake, or a free trip to Australia? by bloobloo · 2006-10-26 02:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Cakes on a Plane?
If I were the FF Team... by Siberwulf · 2006-10-26 03:00 · 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.
That they know of anyway. by SydShamino · 2006-10-26 03:08 · 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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