On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 09:26:21AM -0500, Eric Kimminau wrote:
>
> > Santeri Paavolainen wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Eric Kimminau wrote:
> > > > I thought some of you might find this interesting. Note the date of the
> > > > article.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ix.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/
> > >
> > > I'd guess that the iX magazine hits the newsstands in Germany on 1st of
> > > April..
> > >
> > > Here's a quote from the text which should alert any reader:
> > >
> > > "According to their speaker, Luciano Aprilia, the Italian developers,
> > > are going to make the software available under the GPL, so it can be
> > > used free of charge."
> > >
> > > The article was very entertaining, though :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > santtu@iki.fi I have become death, destroyer of the
> > > worlds.
> >
> > Agreed and implied - Thats why I said to be sure and look at the date.
>
> Sigh... Quite a lot of people apparently don't know the special meaning
> of the 1st of April and mailed me about Linux for Nitendo. Some of them
> became very agressive and insulting when I told them the article'd be
> just hoax ...
>
> Ralf
When did the 25th or March become the 1st of April?
- Ulf
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