Re: Linux 2000(tm)(r)

From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 06:32:00 EST


bryan@terran.org (B. James Phillippe) wrote on 01.04.00 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004010023090.21974-100000@neptune.terran>:

> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > Linus Torvalds writes:
> > > Dear Linux Users,
> > >
> > > I'm pleased to announce jointly with Microsoft(tm)(r)
> > > Corporation
> > > release of Linux 2000 Professional Enterprise.
> >
> > Sigh. It's April fool's day again. Looks like someone actually set up a
> > cronjob to launch this a the stroke of midnight (their time). So,
> > let's count the obvious failures in the forgery:
>
> Although all of your points are valid, there was one rather glaring
> characteristic which (IMO) made the forgery so bad as to barely be
> entertaining: Linus has good grammar. :-)

Well, yes.

My first thought (on seeing the subject): Oh, nice, this is Linus' April 1
posting. Something to laugh.

My second thought (on reading the first line): Drat, grammar this bad
can't be Linus. Let's look at the header. Ah, yes.

Wasn't all that funny, either.

MfG Kai

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