Hi. Robert. Yeah. Great! The western humor.
The misunderstanding may be caused by the time equation, because the time for the mail is April 2nd as the time zone on my PC. I am in the GMT +8:00 time zone. To be honest, it would be evil if the "April 1st" joke were real in my mind. On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Xiaodong Wu et. al, > > > 2008/4/3 Wu Xiaodong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > How could the community do when the next Microsoft Technologies, such > > as DirectX changes like OS changes from Win95 to WinXp. > > > The email about adopting Microsoft Technologies across the board was a > April 1st spoof, written to be almost plausible but also ridiculous at the > same time, and once you realise it's a joke you know you've been had. Such > pranks are a tradition on April 1st every year in at least the UK and US. > I'm not sure how long the tradition has run for or where it started, but > it's been an ever annual amusement all my life. Newspapers, television, > friends, family, communities all get in on the act to try to pull best > pranks. > > In this case prankster wasn't me, but an impersonator who went to the > length of register a [EMAIL PROTECTED] email account and then > subscribing this account with osg-users, and then posted his/her > announcement at plausible timing. As April 1st pranks go it was a pretty > good one because it would be easy to just read it at face value before it > sinks in that its April 1st and just a prank. > > So... the OpenSceneGraph hasn't really embraced MS technologies, its > remains firmly fixed the world of open standards and any platform specifics > will stay minimal and encapsulated as far as possible to prevent users being > tied to any particular platform. This means that the OpenSceneGraph should > still compile on Windows95 through to Vista, from now unsupported operating > systems like IRIX to latest versions of Linux about to come out. Genuine > standards provide continuity and portability which is which make it great > for software that lives and useful life for a long time. > > Those who've been around the OpenSceneGraph community know that I'm a > pretty outspoken supporter of open standards and portability. They'll also > know that I don't personally go anywhere near Windows boxes, and certainly > don't have much patience with Microsoft only technologies or its > questionable business its practices. The prank was good because it reversed > this all on its head, with a nod and wink to the current OOXML fiasco at > ISO. > > So... the question is... who is the prankster???? > > Robert. > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > -- Xiaodong Wu 吴晓东 "'Xiao' means the time and the view when the sun rises and 'dong' means the east in Chinese"
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