[humorix] Microsoft Acquires XBill

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

Microsoft Acquires XBill
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, bero@redhat.de
October 25, 2000

I've just received a major bulletin from the Humorix Vast
Spy Network(tm). Unfortunately, due to the ongoing strike,
I can't tell whether this piece of intelligence is real
fake news or fake fake news planted by a disgruntled
employee.  Either way, it's a big story, and I can't help
but pass it on.  

It's not like we here at Humorix (well, those of us not 
outside picketing and holding "Humorix == Scamorix" signs)
are all that concerned about journalistic integrity
anyways.

Microsoft has just aquired the popular XBill game for an
undisclosed amount of beer money.  Initial fears from the
community that the game would be discontinued have proven
unfounded, however.

Indeed, Microsoft is planning to port XBill to Windows and
include it in their next release, Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
2000(tm) NT(tm) ME(tm) Second(tm) Edition(tm) Service
Pack(tm) 2(tm) OSR(R) 2(tm).

A Microsoft official commented on this rather unexpected
move: "Despite the  fact that we find the game's objective
disgusting, we really like its message: No matter how many
times some moron slaps Bill in the face, and no matter how
many times some moron restores a non-Microsoft operating
system we had previously assimilated, in the end everything
is still running Windows. No that's a powerful message."

The original programmers of XBill, currently undergoing
re-education training in Building 256 of the Microsoft
Campus, were not available for comment at press time.

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