Okay, it’s not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way.
A couple of days ago, upon hearing that Microsoft had officially joined Twitter, the official Linux account sent out a tweet welcoming them. “Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft!,” they said. The tweet sat unanswered for over a day, and it seemed like Microsoft may never answer. But about a few hours ago, they did. “@Linux thanks, nice to be here,” they replied.
Short, sweet, and to the point. A sign of peace in the operating system ecosystem? Probably not. But it’s something — just look at the shirts that were going around in this war just a few years ago (above).
Twitter is turning into quite the sanctuary for rivals to at least pretend to be nice to each other. Just look at Coke and Pepsi the other day.
[photo: flickr/will hybrid]
[Thanks Russell]
Slow news day ?
Yes, actually. As are most national holidays.
And I hope you get some time off to enjoy it!
MG… I love you.
I thought the 4th was the national holiday… At least thats when me and my family light the fireworks… and here you are telling me its been the 3rd all along
/me awaits stern’s criticism of this post
Their computer crashed. Probably took a couple of days to fully reboot.
Very good. You made a joke.
A better, classier joke would be that they had to develop a policy to deal with responses on Twitter.
I have at least one theory on the reason for the niceties…
somebody here knows a little about the guts of the kernel!!
Looking through the source in the link one thing that disturbs me is the page long comments. Its better to write clearer code than it is to write A HUGE NUMBER of lines of comments. A comment should really discuss WHY something is being done and the code should easily be able to tell you WHAT is being done. Just sayin’…
Lets not forget that this is just 2 random dudes from each company assigned to be the “designated tweeter” – Its not like Bill gates or the board of Coke wants to be friends- Its just some lackey being paid 15$ a hour.
Spot on.
“Twinterns” is a thing.
Linux is now a company? On which planet do you live?
The person behind the Linux account doesn’t even seem to have anything to do with Linux development. His web address points to ” Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance”.
Take it from someone that works on the Twitter feed at a big company. The CEOs are not updating these things and making new friends on their Blackberrys.
It’s a couple of guys from the online team who could care less about drama that happened while they were in grade school.
It doesn’t actually mean anything. Come on, it’s Twitter. Happy 4th.
MG –
Here’s a legit story for you. How about you look into how Webvan is making a comeback with that steady traffic starting to form? Lookout Alice, here comes that 2001 molester van to run you down!
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Just hook a brother up with some credit in the post. Don’t call it a ComeBack! (or do!)
I’d hardly call less than 4,000 visitors a month a comeback.
I agree with Dan Black
Now isn’t that “tweet”
MG. Go BBQ or something. Stop wasting your life away reading and reporting on meaningless tweets.
Its some staff welcoming each other and not the CEO’s
Dude your universe looks like one huge Twitter with iPhone and Google inclusions.
lol alright… you gotta admit MG, that is true lol.
It’s the worst form of pay-per-post; they have nothing to say but they need to ‘produce’ the certain number of posts here, sucking ‘news’ out of their thumb. Go suck something else, dude, it’s holiday!
Reminds me of the old ad from Apple welcoming IBM to the PC business in 1981. http://www.macm...iouslyIBM_l.jpg
does Google have a twitter page? if they do, they should send a tweet to Bing
MS is dead horse… just remember I’ve said it now (acutely two years ago). Linux is going to show them the money by 2015.
OS love affair on twitter?
the camp david summit actually broke up, and Israel and the Palestinians had another two year cycle of violence.
So nobody notices that this little joke screams “I write for a tech blog but I don’t understand what Linux is” ?
and the winner is Twitter!
Now we just have to get Microsoft and Apple to follow each other on Twitter. Then maybe a version of Microsoft Office for Mac may be developed that doesn’t randomly quit and loose everything that was being worked on.
As usual, Microsoft is the last to join and a only a follower, never a leader, dragging its heels kicking and screaming.
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