April Fool’s Day

Heh, 1st of April is almost over and no matter how strange it sounds no one fooled me today (at least that I know of). But it was fun (kind of) reading about crazy stuff that happened today like for example:

Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org!

For an undisclosed sum 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.

The initially stunned OpenOffice.org community–a happy-go-lucky international band numbering in the hundreds of thousands–later turned to champagne to celebrate their newfound wealth. “Bless Bill!” one happy Torontonian exclaimed, bubbly in hand. “With all this money, I can beat Mark’s time in orbit!”

Gates has assured all current OpenOffice.org users that their future migration path to Microsoft Office is guaranteed thanks to OpenOffice.org’s faultless support of MS Office files formats. Users can further rest assured that the full functionality currently provided by OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be available in MS-Office 2020 – or possibly 2030.

or Google Romance

Slashdot got new skin:

Canonical Ltd. asked for nUbuntu to Cease Development:

In an email I received from Canonical today, they have stated that nUbuntu must cease development. Their reasoning behind this is that the ideas behind nUbuntu are giving Canonical & Ubuntu a badname. I have fully complied with their request, and this site will go down as of 12:00pm on Saturday.

I would like to thank everyone who has supported nUbuntu and I hope I will be able to develop a new distribution, which people will find just as good as nUbuntu.

Thanks
Posted by TomB on Sat 1st April 2006

…and so on and so forth…

PS. Just read it now (02/04/06 @ 09:31:57) that Wikipedia has a page April_1,_2006 where lots of other hoaxes are listed.