Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

[Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:03 PM, David Guntner <davidg@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...