Open Sauce Foundation Created

First time accepted submitter TekTek writes "In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstrate to the tech, financial, and media communities that "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in their respective markets."

Why the crypto?

[Cryacin]

Is the article not interesting enough on its own merit to have to resort to gimmicks?

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[Internal Modem]

It's a stupid April Fools gimmick...

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[ByOhTek]

You are assuming they are in your timezone, or that for some reason your time zone should have priority. There are plenty of timezones where it is not yet midday, and it is perfectly reasonable for the editors to give their own time zone precedence.

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[daremonai]

I did not know "incompetence" was a synonym for "time zone."

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[Anonymous Coward]

It's been considered a synonym ever since Daylight Savings Time was invented.

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[omnichad]

How strange- a US-based site going on the schedule of US time zones. How dare they?

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[segin]

I'm in Springfield, Missouri, United States of America. The local time is 09:22 (GMT-06:00DST-05:00).

By the way, in America, April Fool's Day is a free-for-all up until the clock strikes midnight. Except here, for we have replaced "midnight" with "naan", just as we replaced "midday" with "noon".

Mmmmm, midnight naan

[Cid Highwind]

Except here, for we have replaced "midnight" with "naan"...

We have? I'm going to have to have words with the owner of the Punjabi restaurant across the street, they close at 9...

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[julesh]

Except here, for we have replaced "midnight" with "naan"...

We have? I'm going to have to have words with the owner of the Punjabi restaurant across the street, they close at 9...

You should come where I live. Here, it is a legal requirement that all purveyors of ethnic food be (1) dubious and (2) open until at least 3 am.

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[MacGyver2210]

Unless you're eating late-night Indian food, 'naan' is not an acceptable replacement for 'midnight'.

Re:Why the crypto?

[bsDaemon]

Ab, vg'f n fghcvq Ncevy Sbbyf tvzzvpx.

Re:Why the crypto?

[Requiem18th]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

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[Jerry Smith]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Iä! Shub-Niggurath!

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[aphelion_rock]

It's a stupid April Fools gimmick...

It is April 2nd in this part of the world and everything still looks like gobbledigook.

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[Scutter]

*facepalm*

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[Zemran]

I actually miss /. on this day.

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[girlinatrainingbra]

Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke?
.
It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new /., eh?

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[gstoddart]

Ah, yes ... it's ignore Slashdot day again. Time to find something else to read today.

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[richpoore]

Thanks for posting on ignore Slashdot day

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[gstoddart]

I had only just realized it was ignore Slashdot day. I assure you, I did for the remainder of the day. :-P

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[hackula]

whooooosh!

Re:Why the crypto?

[Anonymous Coward]

To be fair, this could easily be just another summary approved by Timothy.

With the quality of /. lately I'm surprised we don't get more that read like this one (in fact, sometimes we do).

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[xushi]

I wish I can mod you up for that :)

Did anyone else get a 503 error for a few minutes trying to access /. btw ?

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[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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[Mindcontrolled]

Weaksauce foundation, /. style. The shark, it has been jumped years ago.

In that spirit, then:

[fyngyrz]

Have some of this [flickr.com].

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[DaysSinceTheDoor]

The first of April.

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[JustOK]

It's not the first of April. Might take several hours, but you'll eventually see that I'm right.

Boston version is always pronounced like that

[ayahner]

Sounds like all open source projects in Boston

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[denvergeek]

Don't look back. More than a feeling?

Onq vqrn

[dkleinsc]

Qribhg Pngubyvpf jbeyqjvqr fubhyq or bssraqrq, nf gurl bccbfr gur hfr bs pbaqvzragf.

Oh My Word!

[DarkHorseman]

Such effective cryptography!!!

site suggestion

[MickyTheIdiot]

Put big fucking X marks on the side of posts of people who obviously haven't read the earlier Rot13 post.

Rnfl

[geantvert]

Yvahk/Havk hfref pna hfr gur sbyybjvat pbzznaq gb qrpbqr/rapbqr ebg13
ge n-mN-M a-mn-zA-MN-Z

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[Golddess]

Not OP, but in a similar boat. While I see the "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!" link, it just takes me right back to this "encrypted" version. Curiously, I also see that link when not logged in.

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[Joehonkie]

It's ROT13 so there's any number of websites that will instantly "decrypt" it for you, but really, it's a gag article that's not worth the effort.

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[Tx]

"I don't know what they were smoking when they came up with this "stunt"..."

Whatever it was, I think you need to smoke some of it ;)

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[bradgoodman]

I think so...I'm very, *very* slow... :-L

I can't read any of this

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, let me get me Google Glasses.

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[ThomasBHardy]

Actually this is one of the uses for Google Glasses that has gone unnoticed. Imagine starting a trend of encrypted marketing, social news, flash mob announcements, news articles and more that is all encrypted and your trusty Google Glasses decrypt them for you automatically.

Advertising *is* encrypted already

[jabberw0k]

What we need is glasses that decrypt "Whiter whites! Brighter brights!" into "We added a little more bleach, a bucketload of fragrance, and slapped it in a fancier box in order to charge you more."

QR-codes and ISBN linked and srched on the fly!

[girlinatrainingbra]

Well, it would be the same as having googlasses do "on-the-fly decrypting" of QR-codes [wikipedia.org] in your glasses field of view so that you have the web-page or URL it links to automatically flashing in yo' goo-goggles. Or doing the same auto-linking for UPC codes [wikipedia.org] on products, or ISBN [wikipedia.org] numbers if you look at a magazine or a book.
;>)
It's like being able to carry around a cueCat [wikipedia.org] with you at all times and using it to scan everything and immediately getting the linked web-page or associated web-searches. Goo-glasses

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[girlinatrainingbra]

That would be funny: building "redneck" google-glasses by duct taping a cue-cat, an add-on web-cam, an old-laptop, and an old Metricom ricochet modem [wikipedia.org] together to build a simulacrum of google-glasses. Bonus add on: strap some beer-can holders onto the helmet that holds your glasses in place. The display can be one of those LED-scroller displays attached to the helmet and dangled in front like a carrot in front of the wearer.

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[Darinbob]

My eyes! The googles do nothing!

BZTCbavrf!!

[Paul Rose]

BZTCbavrf!!

Another day spent in boredom

[Attila Dimedici]

I am so tired of every news site thinking they have to come up with clever April Fool's Day articles. Today is going to be a long day.

Double secure! ROT-13 it twice!!

[girlinatrainingbra]

Yeah, but /. at least has (or had) a history of some interesting and playful pranks. Not quite as lame as today's is. Mine's double secure, I ROT-13'ed it twice!

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[Nyder]

I am so tired of every news site thinking they have to come up with clever April Fool's Day articles. Today is going to be a long day.

Glad I haven't gone to bed yet, I'm going to sleep all day and then just mark everything read.

I like a good April Fools Prank as anyone, but thanks to the internet, there are too many and they are all pretty much lame.

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[ducomputergeek]

/.'s been doing this for what...15 years now? It's just tradition at this point.

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[Attila Dimedici]

Yes and every April 1 I go to slashdot in the morning and go, "Oh, that's right, it's April Fool's Day, no reason to visit slashdot today."

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[dstyle5]

Google maps treasure maps, cool idea. Encrypting summaries on /., extremely annoying. There goes a bunch of ad revenue for the day. I'm probably not the only one who is leaving for the day.

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[JeanCroix]

I see it this way: lame slashdot April fools day articles rendered unreadable - nothing of value is lost.

Ponies

[bruce_the_loon]

It's sad that the height of slashdot april foolery was the Ponies skin.

We implemented Internet load-shedding at our university one April Fools.

Jebat npebalz zrnavat

[Alain Williams]

Bu, vg vf nobhg sbbq. V gubhtug gung vg jnf nobhg wbxrf naq gung BFS jnf: Bppnfvbanyyl Fnhpl wbxrf ner Shaal.

jndmor?

[TuringTest]

jarfr oiausdf jjhqewr nkkzxv lam tweet indremo orly wtfx.

rot13

[Bilbo]

Heh... I'm happy to say that I thought my aging Ubuntu install actually has "rot13" installed by default, but then I realized it was just an alias for "tr" that I'd stuck in my .bashrc file many years ago. It's been a while....

guerr tabzr yvprapr

[jmccue]

Vs V chg guerr tabzrf arkg gb zl gbzngb cynagf, jbhyq xrgpuhc V znxr or cebgrpgrq haqre gur 3 tabzr yvprafr. Jung nobhg gur rapelcgrq rys sbhaqngvba ?

Rotting 13

[cstacy]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Lame April Fool's Gimmick

[GlennC]

You'd think they would have ROT-13'd the headlines as well!

But no, /. half-asses it again.

Frikken April Fools

[Atlas_Atkinson]

First time accepted submitter tektek writes
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"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the open sauce foundation (osf). Founding members include mcilhenny company (producer of tabasco brand pepper sauce), huy fong foods (producer of "rooster brand" sriracha sauce), and kikkoman (producer of kikk

Let's admit it guys

[themusicgod1]

You weren't going to RTFA anyway.

play this backwards...

[Tastecicles]

...it downloads Bieber's back catalogue! NO DON'T!

Substitution cipher

[nebulus4]

It's a substitution cipher [wikipedia.org]:

Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cipher: nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm

The post reads:

First time accepted submitter TekTek writes

"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation [sharpenedsticks.com] (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco bra

On Topic Response!

[mbourgon]

Yes, clever, except that everyone knows the makers of Sriracha sauce sue anybody trying to use the name, even hot-sauce makers from the town of Si Racha. That's the very antithesis of open.

Open Sauce

[NatasRevol]

Open Source, from Boston

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[Anonymous Coward]

I much prefer the original Open Sores Foundation. No bloody sauce required (but often donated anyway).

Summoning Cthulhu?

[not-my-real-name]

I just realized that the ROT13 text looks a lot like the incantation to summon Cthulhu. I would suggest that people be a little more careful with using ROT13 (note that it even has 13 in the name). Who knows what sort of elder horror might be summoned.

ROT13 decrypted version

[fufufang]

"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's s

April fools is Slashdot shutdown day

[GodWasAnAlien]

Fake news all day.

It is no longer funny.

I am only reminded that on April one, I look for an alternative site that is not shutdown for the day.

Jimmy Fallon thank-you letter

[istartedi]

Thank-you Slashdot, for being so lame on April Fool's that we can just ignore you and get some work done.

Fgvyy ebbz sbe vaabingvir fnhprznxref

[fritsd]

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Uvf cyna jbexrq naq uvf fnhpr vf abj va cebqhpgvba. Ohg vg pna'g unir orra rnfl gb tvir lbhe frperg fnhpr erpvcr gb fbzr snzbhf ragercerarhe/vairfgbe va gur ubcr gung gurl jvyy abg evc lbh bss naq yrg lbh rnea n qrprag crafvba ba gur cebprrqf.

PS replies in ROT-26 please