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Found at: http://www.videolan.org/#NEWS5 .

<quote> VideoLAN sells VLC to Microsoft (2006-04-011 April 2006) After 10
years of open source development, the VideoLAN developers have decided to
throw in the towel.
With mixed emotions the VideoLAN team announces the acquisition of the
VideoLAN source code by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
A Microsoft spokesperson said they would use the code to enhance the Windows
Media player but could not confirm if the improvements would already be part
of the upcoming Windows Vista release in early 2007.
Although this might come as a shock to the open source community the
VideoLAN team decided this was the best approach due to recent hardened
European legislation.
The VLC team has however made an agreement with Microsoft that the binary
packages up to 0.8.4a could remain publicly available. </quote>

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Frank Bohan
¶ Cricket.bat is a program for bowling a maiden over.
 
Frank Bohan said:
Found at: http://www.videolan.org/#NEWS5 .

<quote> VideoLAN sells VLC to Microsoft (2006-04-011 April 2006) After 10
years of open source development, the VideoLAN developers have decided to
throw in the towel.
With mixed emotions the VideoLAN team announces the acquisition of the
VideoLAN source code by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
A Microsoft spokesperson said they would use the code to enhance the
Windows Media player but could not confirm if the improvements would
already be part of the upcoming Windows Vista release in early 2007.
Although this might come as a shock to the open source community the
VideoLAN team decided this was the best approach due to recent hardened
European legislation.
The VLC team has however made an agreement with Microsoft that the binary
packages up to 0.8.4a could remain publicly available. </quote>
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And the Big boys shall own the world.
And the rest of us shall pay the price.
 
Craig said:
A (bad) April Fool's joke?
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There was a joke going around a year ago about how Richard Stallman had
retired on account of him completing the port of UNIX utils. Alas, I
can't find a link.
 
...acquisition of the
VideoLAN source code by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
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Yeah---I just saw the Open Office website (http://www.openoffice.org/)
which has the same "sold to Microsoft" notice on it. Click on the link
for "Full Press Release" amd find the April Fool's Day notice.
 
Il Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:21:09 +0100, Frank Bohan ha scritto:
Found at: http://www.videolan.org/#NEWS5 .

<quote> VideoLAN sells VLC to Microsoft
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www.openoffice.org
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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.
 
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