…over Religion.
Back in 1994 a fake “news release” made the rounds on the Internet about Microsoft acquiring the Catholic Church. Apparently quite a few people took it seriously, as Mr Softie got flooded with phone calls, so eventually Microsoft had to release a denial (see bottom of above link). I kinda wonder if the naive folks were the descendants of those who took Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds a bit too literally half a century before…
Well, the good old joke is reborn, but Microsoft is so passe, the acquirer this time is Oracle. (hat tip: Jeff Nolan) Hey, it certainly fits Oracle’s philosophy:
“Ellison described ORACLE’s long-term strategy to develop a scalable religious architecture that will support all religions through
emulation. A single core religion will be offered with a choice of interfaces according to the religion desired — “One religion, a couple of different implementations,” said Ellison.”
I’m a bit disappointed though.. the new joke is a verbatim copy of the old one, with the names updated. I think “Oracle” should have considered today’s political realities and acquire ALL major religions. I’m known for coming up with new name-combo’s (see Sakia, Nonyo, Nokirola, Spomment, Boomble) and would have a few ideas for the new World Religion, but out of respect for the “legacy” religions I’ll refrain from that exercise 
I wonder when we’ll hear details of the 2.0 version, in which Google Acquires the World.
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