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VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name
Several folks noted that VA is changing its name to "VA Software" to reflect the fact that they aren't a Linux company anymore. VA of course owns OSDN which runs various Linux and Open Source web sites including amusingly enough Linux.com. Can't say it matters much to me what they call the thing as long as they let us keep running Slashdot, but it really is sad knowing that most of the cool open source hackers no longer work there. My bad. Anyone have a link to the press release that doesn't require a login?
...didn't want to call it VA GNU/Linux.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Have the top brass figured out the next big buzzword?
VA XML?
VA Java? (haha, I'm just joking)
VA Unlimited Freedom?
VA USA?
VA Voom?
VA cancy?
I am switching to a Visual Basic kernel and drivers immediately.
Thank you for saving me a lot of time wasted with Linux.
Don't you see? in the NEW economy, you don't need to be in a "business". That's so 20th century , man! Get with the new paradigm!
Source Developer's Network?
Dot instead of SlashDot?
Meat instead of Freshmeat?
Live to Code, Code to Live!
... and call itself VA gina. it'd probably turn a profit :)
Dot instead of SlashDot?
no, it will be backslashDot (c)
The bill gates borg icon will get a stylish makeover and a heroic background to boot.
free passport account with your backslashdot registration!
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
Saw this one coming.
VA seem to be loosing more than just a bit of their name. If we Trolls make our push now we can eliminate them once and for all.
I'm a pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
Microsoft is dropping 'Micro' from their name...
Perhaps VA has followed in many of the former "dot bomb" naming conventions where one thinks up a good list of names, then determines which are available. As most are probably taken, a domain name, and thus company name, are easily chosen.
So, they found vasoftware.com" was available and went for it. Looks like the record was updated today, too.
So what else might they switch to in the future? Domain squatters are already on the hunt for their next possible name...
...that all anti-VA posts, such as "Will they change their stock symbol" or "Who cares" have all been modded down as redundant?
:)
...that there are very few "Good idea, VA!" posts?
...that the very few "good idea"s that there are are modded up?
...that they're all biased?
...that CmdrTaco is the only one who seems to care and post articles about the OSDN?
...that adding "Now mod me down for being a troll" at the end gets about "+5, Funny" or "+3, Interesting"?
With saying that....
Mod me down for being a troll, just wanted to put these out...
--joshua
2. Give the software, sell the hardware...
3. Give the software away, and eat FREE food from your vegetable garden, and live rent-FREE in your van down by the river...
Power to the Peaceful
Definitely:
FCKD
>$income = $bandwidth + $other_guy - $ad_revenue;
;)
No wonder he shows a "profit" from his site, if he's subtracting his revenue from his expenses instead of the other way around...
Typical sneaky dot-com accounting
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!