On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:03 PM, David Guntner <dav...@akamail.net> wrote:

> Bret Busby grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that the Debian web site appears to have been breached
> > and thence compromised.
>
> And what evidence do you have that the website has been
> breached/compromised by anyone other than the Debian website maintainers
> themselves?
>
> There's a LONG history on the net of people mucking with their own
> websites (among doing other things) as part of an April Fools gag.  I
> strongly suspect that's what has happened there.
>

Indeed. Like this: http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft/


> > Is that supposed to be funny?
>
> For those of us with a sense of humor, yes. :-)
>

Bret apparently has never been online on April 1st before. A *lot* of tech
sites pull April Fools jokes. Slashdot used to be notorious for it,
especially when Rob Malda was at the helm...

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