Star How to Get the Longhorn Beta 1 Invitation
Linked by David Adams on Tue 26th Jul 2005 15:12 UTC, submitted by Varg Vikernes
Humor A Microsoft customer was so eager to get a beta of Longhorn that he FedEx'ed two pounds of inscribed chocolate to one of Microsoft's test managers. Yes, he did get the invitation and the chocolate was sent to the Longhorn shiproom for everyone to enjoy.
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by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 15:17 UTC
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Sweet! ;^)

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Heh
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 15:35 UTC
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I'd rather take the chocolate over the Longhorn beta. But that's just me. ;)

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Hehe
by Emil on Tue 26th Jul 2005 15:38 UTC
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Chocolate is my friend only weak point. I guess if he would be at Microsoft Test group, he would snap. ;)

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microsoft fan...
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 15:52 UTC
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or apple spy?

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RE: Heh
by 1c3d0g on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:09 UTC
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I'd rather send the chocolates to the developers of KDE 4, now that's something to look forward to... ;-)

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RE[2]: Heh
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:21 UTC in reply to "RE: Heh"
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second !

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RE[2]: Heh
by ma_d on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:37 UTC in reply to "RE: Heh"
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I second that. But I'd want the secret KDE 4.0.1 that's not horribly broken ;) .

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RE[2]: Heh
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:53 UTC in reply to "RE: Heh"
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I'd rather send the chocolates to the developers of KDE 4, now that's something to look forward to... ;-)

Agreed. KDE 4 is looking sweet.

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PR Dream
by Tyr. on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:32 UTC
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The kind of story everybody likes. Maybe that's why it sets off my bull-detector. How did this guy know the name and adress of this test manager in the first place ?

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Hmmm
by ma_d on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:36 UTC
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Was he perhaps a Hershey's employee?

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Horror storty :)
by jbauer on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:37 UTC
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Been eaten literally by Microsoft. Now that's an eXPerience!

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RE[3]: Heh
by teprrr on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:40 UTC
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Oh, you must've a lot of chocolate as there's pretty many people who are developing KDE ;)

Currently Commit-Digest stats aren't build but last time they were 203 contributors (http://commit-digest.org/index.php?issue=jul82005#Statistics) ;)

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v LOL
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:43 UTC
v LOL
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:44 UTC
v LOL
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 16:44 UTC
v What a waste
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:13 UTC
announcing...
by AdamW on Tue 26th Jul 2005 18:51 UTC
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Announcing the Mandriva Features For Chocolate campaign: mail me a large size Green and Blacks dark chocolate with mint bar and name something you'd like Mandriva 2006...:P

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Advantage
by Anonymous on Tue 26th Jul 2005 19:30 UTC
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So that's the big advantage of proprietary software that Microsoft always talks about... You get some nice bribes!
Well, free software developers wouldn't be interested in the chocolate anyways, as they only consume weed, beer and pizza (notice that this is SARCASM, I do not intend to start a flamewar)!

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laxitive :)
by Anonymous on Wed 27th Jul 2005 02:18 UTC
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.. what they didn't know was ..

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