Slashdot is OWNED by Dice.

When they were running anything VA/SourceForge related, they would actually bother to flag the conflict of interest. Now they're not even bothering with that.

LibreOffice does write DOCX.

AOO doesn't yet, but they're apparently working on it for the 4.x line.

Not even Coke or Pepsi. Microsoft is and has always been an office supply company. They're rich because they worked out how to sell an expensive box of paperclips to every business in the world. But y'know, turning pens and paperclips into a consumer shiny toy company? A bit unlikely to happen.

Microsoft already ships gcc with Interix.

Entirely made-up garbage. If cyberwar was a real problem, not just a way to transfer money from the public purse to military contractors, no government computer would be running Windows.

Last Debian CD I used (Wheezy) had GNOME 3 and LXDE. I tried GNOME 3, laughed when literally the only button I could find was the off switch, and loaded LXDE.

Debian is planning to do the same (the thread containing approval from relevant people at Ubuntu too), for much the same reasons.

VirtualDub actually supports Wine, fwiw. But yeah, it's that just one app (or two or three).

Anecdote: my work currently has XP, Office 2007 and Lotus Notes. We're looking at replacing Office and Notes with Google Apps ... and XP with Linux or Chromebook-style thin clients unless you can come up with a good reason you need a general-purpose PC. Google Apps is pretty much the hot favourite with lots of people saying "hell yes!"; the second part is just being mooted, but it's being seriously mooted. It'll be interesting. (I can already do all my work in Xubuntu.)

http://www.thephoenixprinciple.com/blog/2013/01/sell-microsoft-now-game-over-ballmer-loses.html

Forbes has vanished the article. Here's a copy on the author's blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals

Pick one and get to work! Instead of just saying how cool it would be if someone else did.

I think it's that WMF is in litigation with Internet Brands so is opting not to mention it.

Speaking as a volunteer myself, IB are arseholes, and fuck 'em.

There's quite a lot terribly wrong with them. Look up VBulletin versus Xenforo too.

That's because it's a fork, because Internet Brands tried to sue the volunteers involved.

At present, Wikivoyage is running about 500 edits an hour, Wikitravel around 500 edits every 15 hours - most of those being spam and spam cleanup.