This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, April 1, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 54. On today's newscast . . . patents get weirder with help from Apple and IBM, Conficker thumbs his nose at Windows users, Twitter gets owned, Linux and Mac force a Windows rethink, and lobsters and fish sing a Linux song. Oh, and there's a bonus link below for OpenOffice.org pranks. It is April 1st after all.

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Links to stories covered in this newscast

Google announces GMail Autopilot

Microsoft can't stand the competition: rethinks Windows 7

U.S. Patent Office uncovers Apple's secret plan

300,000 domains blocked to fight Conficker worm

IBM registers offshoring patent

The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir - Linux and poor taste, together at last

Identi.ca buys Twitter

OpenOffice.org pranks, for anytime