[N3WBI3]

I love this part:

It's possible that it's just one of the toys Googleplex engineers play with on Fridays, when they get time off from buffing the search engine code or filtering out entries about Tiananmen Square.

[N3WBI3]

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[ShadowAce]

heh--this came out after I sent you the link:

Google? Linux? Goobuntu? Balderdash!

by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[antiRepublicrat]

The origin of the word 'Goobuntu' is not clear, though it does not appear in online Zulu dictionaries.

If the article were by The Onion, I'd say this is the subtle hint planted to let us know that the article is satire. But this is from The Register, so we know it's just bad editorializing.

[Golden Eagle]

At CES Las Vegas this month, it announced the Google Pack, a collection of desktop software bundled together for easy downloading. The pack includes many apps which compete directly with the Windows bundle, such as Google Talk, Google Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, the Trillian instant messenger client, RealPlayer, and Picasa photo management.

Hysterical, since Lunix versions of a lot of that don't even exist. Weren't you claiming a couple of months ago that Google was releasing a MS Office killer too? What's the release date on that now?