URL: http://dot.kde.org/117
5421211/
From: Anonymous Editor <>
Dept: get-rid-of-riddell
Date: Sunday 01/Apr/2007,  02:53
Jonatan Riddle Vetoes KDE 4 April Fool's Prank
==============================================
Jon Ridler long time KDE contributor and KDE Dot News
editor has put
his foot down and vetoed the awesome KDE 4 April Fool's
prank we had
prepared for you guys. The article was submitted to a
secret internal
dot list and met immediate approval from other dot editors.
The article
was described as good-natured and obviously intended to be
an April
Fool's by the submitter.
Unfortunately, John found fit to leak the confidential
article to
IRC and found that the humour-impaired KDE developers did
not find the
article funny since it might actually be true. With the
help of
billionaire Mark Shuttlemoon of Kubuntoo [http://www.kubuntu.org/],
J.R.
of Dallas exercised his veto option and blocked the article
from
appearing on the dot.
In an attempt to capitalise on this unfortunate
incident, Uwe Theme
responded by writing a lame April Fool's joke of his own
[http://www.li
nux.org.na/index.php/topic,38.msg84.html#msg84] about
KDE
e.V. supposedly sending a cease and desist letter to
Microsoft. The
article is clearly an attempt to publicise the heretofore
unknown
Linucks North Afrikan [http://www.linux.org.na/
] website.
Community reaction to this very article has been swift,
calling it
the "stupidest article to ever appear on KDE Dot
News". And others
commenting that KDE Dot News is a proffessionnal news
organziation for
KDE and should not be printing garbage like this. Nobody
will ever take
KDE serious ever again, so we should all switch to that
desktop with teh
smelly foot.
Please understand, I am risking everything to tell you
guys about
the awesome KDE 4 April Fool's article that I cannot tell
you about.
This very article was slipped through the cracks of the KDE
Dot News
moderation system and self-approved anonymous. I might be
fired from
the e.V. [http://ev.kde.org/] for this.
You don't know how scary it is
to face the e.V. board members.
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