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LWN in Trouble
DanDan writes: "It seems that Linux Weekly News may be on the rocks. Tucows has cut support and they have lost their Senior Editor. It would be sad to see them go." Anybody who has bright ideas or cash burning a hole in your pocket should check out their discussion list.
You thought MS had sort of nazi-esque methods? Well, I will now, in this brief essay, reveal to you the hidden truth of Linux, an joint Finnish-German Nazi conspiration for revenge against the victors of WW2. Let's look at the evidence.
During the second World War, Finland was a close allied to the Third Reich, as is clearly illustrated by this photo of a finnish military aircraft. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, a revantionist urge abounds in both countries.
Linux was written by Finnish stuent Linus Thorvalds, a member of the small Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, well known for it's white supremacist tendencies. In this article Thorvalds expresses his enthusiasm and admiration for the German-led KDE project. He also makes some unclear statements about the claims of Richard Stallman for calling the operating system GNU/Linux being invalid. Why is this? Obviously, the Nazi -and therefore Anti-Communist- Thorvalds here shows his support for his German allies against the Communist GNU and GNOME projects.
But what does this hideous Nazi conspiracy want? We cannot, at this point, know. But what we do know, is that Nazies are up to no good. To stop them from achieving whichever horrible goals they hav in mind, I would strongly discourage any use of the Linux kernel or the KDE. Instead, I would recomend the use of a truly democratic operating system.
Thank You.
And poke her, with the soft cushions!!!
Is this really the loss that the slash-dot editors would have you believe it is?
I submit to you that the answer is no. Their inability to be profitable is caused by either inefficient business practices (in which case another, more efficient will take their place if a profit can be made), or the "community" doesn't value them enough to support them financially, in which case their value is negligent.
failures! ha ha ha. linux is for biatches.
When I heard they were in trouble I rushed right over. I'll do what I can to help those poor bastards out. Right now I've got a perl script which is reloading their main page and randon links from their site every second. That should help them generate some revenue.
No thanks are needed, my friends in the open source community, I'm just happy to help.
You best friend,
Steve Jobs.
How many "information wants to be free" geeks are gonna pay for a scrip to LWN when they can get other linux news for free?
Yeah, marketing to those who, by definition, are reluctant to pay for things is kind of a sucker's game.
Tim
If you can hold off for a couple hours, Michael will be back from lunch; he'd be happy to "do" you then. Hang tight, big guy.
... make www.microsoft.com your homepage...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.