Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org 124
Micahel West writes "As reported on OpenOffice.org: 'For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions, Microsoft's Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he "was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits," the world's richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of Microsoft acquisitions including several erstwhile competitors, a considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small governments.'"
That's getting a bit close... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:That's getting a bit close... (Score:2)
Re:That's getting a bit close... (Score:1)
Re:That's getting a bit close...* (Score:1)
Re:April First Post (Score:1)
Re:April First Post (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:April First Post (Score:1)
Re:April First Post (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:April First Post (Score:2)
Here's a tip: read the moderating guidelines, ya bozos.
Hah! (Score:2)
He knew he had no FP.
Who's the rube now, rube?
Finally! (Score:3, Interesting)
For those of you who think this is an April Fools Joke, please note, it's April 2nd somewhere in the world.
Re:Finally! (Score:1)
April 2nd (Score:3, Funny)
OK, I suggest everyone emails Cmdr Taco with a one word message:
"Subtlety!"
And if he doesn't get it, we should round up a posse to rivet a brass plaque with "Subtlety" engraved on it to his forehead.
Re:April 2nd (Score:2)
Re:April 2nd (Score:2)
OMG - Open Source is So Cute! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:OMG - Open Source is So Cute! (Score:1)
TEE HEE (Score:2)
Honestly... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Honestly... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Honestly... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Honestly... (Score:2)
Re:Honestly... (Score:2)
Gotta wonder why it's not under the main GPL though.
Re:Honestly... (Score:1)
If you can't beat 'em... (Score:2)
Well, that's a... (Score:1)
It should have been a (Score:1)
April Fools (Score:1)
About Time (Score:1)
Re:About Time (Score:1)
Trickster are neither good nor evil, just ask Loki!
Re:About Time (Score:2)
In other news.... (Score:5, Funny)
But Wait... (Score:1)
Bah... (Score:4, Funny)
Man... If that's all you can complain about then consider youself lucky. I once had Microsoft Word restart the whole computer.
=Game("StarWars") (Score:2)
Foxpro (Score:1, Interesting)
I could understand MS chucking Access into the dumpster when the bought Foxpro, but have to admit that I don't understand the current situation. I cannot see the sense into pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a failed product like Access when has owned Foxpro since before Access became common.
Re:But Wait... (Score:2)
I agree! It's almost as big of a mystery as how cut and paste works in Excel!
A few small governments (Score:2)
Including this one [usdoj.gov]? It would make sense [slashdot.org].
Yes!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Yes!! (Score:2)
Making up that crappy joke about being bought by MS. Also waiting for OO.o to build (to compare, several hundred Gentoo installs have been completed in the same time.
Re:Yes!! (Score:2)
I use gentoo, I have been in the process of ugrading glibc on a mere 3 machines for 2 hours now, and I do not think you know what you're talking about
Re:Yes!! (Score:2)
I know what they've been doing. (Score:1)
Begging people to use their shit and blaming MS for their woes instead of actually improving it.
Nah, Gates Could Never Admit (Score:1)
Enough already! (Score:5, Insightful)
The saddest part is, this is the most believable story yet.
Re:Enough already! (Score:2)
Believable?
Tell that to all the creationists who were all too ready to believe that, after three months of constant arguing, I actually converted and accepted their arguments.
Then again, creationists will obviously believe anything, so I guess it doesn't really count.
That was dumb. (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons video (Score:3, Funny)
I didn't get rich by writing cheques! [mediawart.com]
(Apparently this won't work for linux users, fittingly
Re:Obligatory Simpsons video (Score:1)
Works for sure, dude. (Score:2)
Nah, works just fine. Use mplayer and download the crappy win32 drivers. Funny thing is that it works better under X than it does under windoze.
Yay! (Score:2)
Re:Yay! (Score:2)
Please (Score:4, Funny)
Pleaaase Slashdot editors, on my knees I beg you to remove the pink color. It hurts our eyes reaaally hard. April Fool's Day is supposed to be a joke, not a torture. Please be clement.
Re:Please (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Please (Score:2)
Besides, I think the pink theme is actually rather funny, at least when compared to all the other April fool's jokes that have been posted here today.
Easy solution (Score:1)
Just a note, there is still a little bit of pink left on the site since I guess the extension doesn't change everything.
Re:Please (Score:1)
I blame missing the "OMG PONIES" part on an ex-girlfriend with an MLP obsession.
Re:Please (Score:2)
I Heard That OpenOffice Sucks Anyway (Score:1)
Finally, OpenOffice will get all the research it needs to be the best. Maybe Microsoft will smarten up and buy Linux next, I hate that crappy OS.
Any Program or OS that doesn't crash must be a rootkit, that's the only logical explanation!
Google Desktop Search doesn't index openofficedocs (Score:2)
This is the only thing that's really keeping me from switching over completely to openoffice. It's sort of annoying that my old legacy xls files and doc files get indexed by google desktop search, while everything new I create and everything I re-save in openoffice (ods/odt) format, doesn't get indexed. I really wish google would get with it and fix that. Like, today. OMG they don't even support an OPEN SOURCE format LOL!!!1
Disclaimer: This post is entirely serious and has nothing to do with invisib
Re:Google Desktop Search doesn't index openofficed (Score:2)
Re:Google Desktop Search doesn't index openofficed (Score:2)
Re:Google Desktop Search doesn't index openofficed (Score:1)
Don't the invisible pink unicorns talk to you, too?
Sharp intake of breath (Score:1)
Serious sites should play more jokes like this, but on other days of the year - that would really freak people out.
Full list of April fools joke's (Score:5, Interesting)
Here is a sample, the twenty most popular ones:
mymsnsearch.com [mymsnsearch.com] - fake (but hilariously accurate) search results
thinkgeek.com [thinkgeek.com] - USB Tanning Center, RFID Blocking T-shirt, Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom Kit, Caffeine Inhaler, and more
blog.outer-court.com [outer-court.com] - Google Rooms
gtachicago.com [gtachicago.com] - gta chicago does not exist, (*hint check the whois info*)
tveps.net [tveps.net] - Isaac 'Chef' Hayes not leaving southpark after all. Comes clean that it was a publicity stunt.
blizzard.com [blizzard.com] - BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® PRESENTS BURGERCRAFT(TM)
iwantoneofthose.com [iwantoneofthose.com] - tiny device that downloads your brain's memory to a 2GB USB Flash Drive
bolloxcomics.co.uk [bolloxcomics.co.uk] - Myspace parody
wiebetech.com [wiebetech.com] - 5 TB iPod
googlesystem.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] - Google Browser is finally launched. Installer 1.68MB
figuiere.net [figuiere.net] - int is_computer_on(void)
steampowered.com [steampowered.com] - VALVe purchased by Apple
slashdot.org [slashdot.org] - OMG!!! PONIES!!! (and pink layout)
ogrish.com [ogrish.com] - (NSFW) Bizarre Baby Born In Nepal
worldofwarcraft.com [worldofwarcraft.com] - Blizzard to put Wisps as a playable race for World of Warcraft.
gearlog.com [gearlog.com] - Laptop Lingerie: Bringing Tech & Pleasure Together
2600.com [2600.com] - 200600 google spoof
bungie.net [bungie.net] - Bungie's next game, Pimps At Sea, progessing nicely for the Xbox360
forums.worldofwarcraft.com [worldofwarcraft.com] - World of Warcraft 1.11 patch notes leaked
theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] - customise The Register to suit your needs - from blocking ads, to selecting the kind of stories you really want to read.
I say wikipedias is better (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I say wikipedias is better (Score:2)
But without any way of knowing if it's true today.
TWW
MySpace parody (Score:1)
Re:the real April Fool's (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:the real April Fool's (Score:1)
I REALLY Like Pickles!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
PLEASE!!!!
Re:I REALLY Like Pickles!!!! (Score:1)
iTs about the pickles!!!!1!!!!
April fools (Score:1)
{
bool aprilFool = FALSE;
int tireSome = 0;
char * slashdotStory = NULL;
while ( PATIENCE_LIMIT > tireSome )
{
slashdotStory = readStory();
aprilFool = isAprilFool ( slashdotStory );
if ( TRUE == aprilFool )
{
tireSome++;
}
}
HaHa - I forked it just before the aquisition (Score:1)
Obvious (Score:1)
Why can't this one be real? (Score:1)
In related news... (Score:1)
No Way! (Score:1)
Down with Opensource (Score:1)
This would be funnier if... (Score:1)
Related News: GPL3 Changes Allow Closed Source (Score:2)
Asked if this meant that he was abandoning the Free Software Crusade, RMS replied I still think that Open Source is a Good Idea(tm), I'm just tired of being the whipping boy of Linus and Perens and
Other April 1st news (Score:1)
* Rosie O'Donnell posses for Playboy.
* M$ GPL's Windows.
Gates is a moron (Score:2)
whats next? (Score:1)
he might as well buy all of Earth while he's at it.. because there's always going to be something or someone that "cuts in to his profits" simply because they want the majority of people, especially poor
Re:whats next? (Score:1)
Don't... (Score:1)
Oh, I See Now... (Score:1)
He must be on a roll today... (Score:1)
APRIL FOOLS! (Score:1)