http://www.osnews.com/story/11351/How_to_Get_the_Longhorn_Beta_1_Invitation Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:44:55 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?9123 http://osnews.com/thread?9123 Sweet! ;^) Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9129 http://osnews.com/thread?9129 I'd rather take the chocolate over the Longhorn beta. But that's just me. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9131 http://osnews.com/thread?9131 Chocolate is my friend only weak point. I guess if he would be at Microsoft Test group, he would snap. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Emil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9135 http://osnews.com/thread?9135 or apple spy? Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9146 http://osnews.com/thread?9146 I'd rather send the chocolates to the developers of KDE 4, now that's something to look forward to... ;-) Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (1c3d0g) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9155 http://osnews.com/thread?9155 second ! Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9160 http://osnews.com/thread?9160 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 ? Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tyr.) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9164 http://osnews.com/thread?9164 Was he perhaps a Hershey's employee? Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9166 http://osnews.com/thread?9166 Been eaten literally by Microsoft. Now that's an eXPerience! Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbauer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9168 http://osnews.com/thread?9168 I second that. But I'd want the secret KDE 4.0.1 that's not horribly broken . Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9171 http://osnews.com/thread?9171 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) Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (teprrr) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9174 http://osnews.com/thread?9174 I wonder what kind of laxatives or other nasty chemicals that chocolate is laced with. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9175 http://osnews.com/thread?9175 I wonder what kind of laxatives and other nasty chemicals that chocolate is laced with. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9176 http://osnews.com/thread?9176 I wonder what kind of laxatives and other nasty chemicals that chocolate is laced with. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9182 http://osnews.com/thread?9182 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. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9191 http://osnews.com/thread?9191 The proprietary Microseft system is not worth that much chocolate. Longhorn will be a piece of shit, just like all the other products they've ever released. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9288 http://osnews.com/thread?9288 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 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9333 http://osnews.com/thread?9333 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)! Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?9581 http://osnews.com/thread?9581 .. what they didn't know was .. Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments