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OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com)
"From now on our communities will merge to became one single point of contact for OS/2 users and people investigating the truth about our planet earth," OS2World announced today.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
Its not fun, its a waste of time and resources.
Not even slightly believable.
Slashdot sucks hard on April 1st.
This Slashdot post is more recognition of the OS/2 Warp community than it got in a long while. Now all they need is to merge with the Satanic Temple and the world will be complete.
I dunno man, this feels kind of like making the downs kid in the back of the class the butt of the joke. Antagonizing is not how you cleanse this shit from the collective consciousness, and it's not even a terribly funny sentiment.
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My initial thoughts were "WTF???", although I was just browsing April fools' day jokes moments ago.
> OS/2.
So We Don't Fall Off !
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
But the Slashdot editors could write that OS/2 community was to merge with Amiga community and I could actually believe that. These two communities have an awful lot in common.
McAffee community announces it will be merging with the anti-vaxx movement to get the funds to create an open source version.They plan to release the source on github in 366 days.
Why hate the operating system that was so much better than Windows. OS/2 had a real object model whereas Windows had a pseudo-object model. Remember when you tried to access a shortcut in Windows where the target file had been moved? Windows would show the swaying flashlight icon and take forever to search for where the target file had been moved. Do the same in OS/2, and OS/2 automatically updated the link to point to the new location of the target file. Hence, no waiting for OS/2 to "search" for where the file went.
OS/2 had preemptive multitasking long, long before Windows.
Those are just two reasons why OS/2 was so much better. Windows won because Bill Gates is a ruthless businessman, not because of any technical competition. If it were just about technical superiority, Amiga, Netscape, and Wordperfect also would have won.
The effort of the Flat Earth Society to flat-out flatten the structure of the OS/2 Warp Society has fallen flat.
The OS/2 Warp Society maintains its warped structure and no one can imagine what kind of warped thiinking is required to belive that it can be flattened.
Question: What is the difference between the OS/2 Warp Community and the Flat Earth Society?
Answer: The Flat Earth Society still has members all around the Globe.
A key part of a good april fools joke is having sufficient believability to make people pause and think WTF! This one looks like it was created by a pre-schooler... and one on the lower end of the IQ scale at that.
I'm up late and didn't realize it was APRIL FOOLS, I needed this truly, thank you!
weak
IBM open-sources OS400/IBM i
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
always a belieber...
[($)]
Except that 'downs kid' (which is an insulting term) is not stupid enough to believe the world is flat and has a better chance of influecing poeple than a flat-earther. .
People who believe the world is flat deserve your ridicule.
Would you feel differently if I said 'people who believe the moon is made of swiss cheese'? Or would you feel the need to protect the poor idiots still?
I think he meant the OS2 Warp users.
You can't 'segregate' just one race, you stupid cunt. Funny how most racists would only be maybe, at best, the second-smartest chimp in a particular group.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for the OS/2 folks to hook up with the anti-VAXxers?
The isn't a globe and isn't flat, it's concave! Flat earth is so 2017
Lord Steven Christ's Concave Earth
The April fools jokes were funny on /. 15+ years ago. They're not funny anymore. Stop it. Please. You pretty much ruin the website for the entire day.
Please stop doing this. I'm begging. It's not funny, it's not cute. Just stop it.
Hey... Respect your elders.
Checking on Google Flat Earth (now that would would a great April fools prank) I see OS/2 also had a secret conference gathering located near the equally secret antarctic entrance to Alvatabar. So we see Google's participation in the great map conspiracy to hide it all and deceive the world by calling it Mercator ;).
Up your stupid assholes.
Stop doing this shit, we're fucking adults.
It was tiring when the internet was young, now?
Stop it, just stop.
... and in relation to the quality of humor, it produces too much CO2
But i got a chuckle out of stackoverflow this morning
Slashdot hates OS/2. F*ck Slashdot.
If you don't know anything else, of course it will be flat.
April Fools becomes nothing other than confusing. When trump proclaims "the biggest inauguration evah!", how the fuck is an April Fools joke supposed to compete???
Is you believe that will work as a claim.
Mind you, if trumpers (you're not: you're just a troll tryharding) heard trump claim the earth was flat, they'd all suddenly believe it was true.
Didn't this happen in roughly 1995 already?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
April Fools day on the internet should be International Critical Thinking day. A day to teach what everyone should be practicing 365 days a year.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I HATE Slashdot on April 1st. So worthless.
At least its not pink.
Looks like /. still hasn't figured out how tiresome these stories have gotten over the years. (OK... I'm off to read the moderation instructions to see if one can downvote entire stories.)
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
I always knew those OS2 folks were a cult! Now where was I, oh, yes, 2019 is abso-posi-lutely the year of Linux on the desktop! I feel it in my bones!
I have a small business customer who still runs EComstation on relatively contemporary hardware. They only need it on a couple machines out of the two dozen or so that they have, but since they had some critical OS/2 software in use, it was cheaper and easier for them to update OS/2 than it was to get their software updated. One of the reasons I work with them is that I'm the only guy they could find with some background on OS/2.
It's not absolutely up to date. I don't think it supports USB3, for example, but it does work if you need it.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Then again, I used OS/2 Warp quite successfully in a production environment.
We at Slashdot have the best fools, believe me! None are foolier, and none are Aprilier. We have a spring in our step, and it ain't bone spurs, like that lyin' CNN claims. MFGA!
Table-ized A.I.
They have been doing it for years to make a round earth fit on a flat map. OS/2 Warp is simply asking us to 'Warp our Minds' until those flat flat earth dollars start roll roll rolling in :)
This was a modestly amusing story to me.
Even had crucifix as the captcha.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
Losing my religion
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
that the Flat Earth Society would be more aggravated being associated with OS2 than vice versa.
Either you're doing it or such a scheme would not make you do it. So really REALLY pointless. The stories should be silly fun things. There's fuck all fun about this attempt at april fools.
Oh, and if you think you're doing it all the time, you're lying to yourself. Critical thinking starts with yourself first. You failed.
You were already +5 Insightful, but I spent a mod point anyway to keep you there. Well said.
Syn3rg
From my cold, dead hands!
#OS24LIFE
Two groups of deluded backwardslooking people get together!
Windows won because Gates was ruthless, but also because MS took full advantage of the 386 capabilities to slowly convert DOS into NT, step by step, block by block. Never requiring a massive shift that broke backward compatibility all at once, and especially by leveraging office and windows early on by bundling it on many computers at the time, but never breaking DOS until nobody cared any more.
OS/2 did get there first, but in effect, it never got there at all.
This is why I don't like April first, because sites like this feel the need to waste my and other people's time with bullshit stories like this. Just stop, it's not funny, in fact it's extremely frustrating, and people will read stuff like this, not see it as a joke, and spread this crap around.
I bet April 1st helps sites like Snopes get a big slew of material to debunk for this exact reason.
Now pretending this is real, if you want to kill your cred and your project, 'merging' with the flat earth idiots* is the way to go.
*I think using there term "idiots" is being too nice, it's more like chronic retardation using the true definition of the word.
.... GEOWORKS!
Of what? Lunatics? Goats? Lunatic goats? Because no sane human would make the choice to run OS/2 today. It's been dead for 17 years (and counting).
...for a moment.
Hear here!
Yeah, because I enjoy wading through the garbage to get to the real articles. Sigh. At this point in my life, it wouldn't suprise me at all of this was a real thing, as I've seen so much kooky shit during the past 42+ years of my life.
Now I guess I have to avoid Slashdot every April 1st :[
Dead OS plus dead brains hahahaha