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VA Linux Now VA Software
g2g was among the people who noticed that Slashdot & OSDNs parent, VA Linux Systems has changed its name to VA Software. vasoftware.com is the new domain as I guess they are focusing on SourceForge and OSDN. On the upside, I guess newspapers will stop calling the company 'Linux' all the time.
they'll probably start calling it "software" now :-/
...who?
They're still around?
Somehow this reminds me of NeXT computers changing name to NeXT Software (and then was bought out by apple).
But I suppose the new name better reflects their business.
Erik Dalén
...because it's really Red Hat == Linux, right? :)
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
... its not changed to VA GNU/Linux.
Baz
Why not call yourselves Software,Hardware and Information Technology? The new ticker will be adequate with the company's performance too.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Looks like they were too late for .biz registration ;)
To reflect the fact they do not, have never and will never sell apples, Apple computers have changes their name to "Mac"
To reflect the fact that they are now more of a computer manufacturior rather than a machine manufacturer, and that they also operate at both a personal and business level, International Business Machines (IBM) have changed their name to International Computers & Stuff (ICS).
To reflect the fact that they are not mandrakes, do not look like mandrakes, and - despite the fact they are french - rarely even eat mandrakes, Mandrake Software are changin their name to "ThatFrenchDistro".
and so on....
To reflect the fact that I am not really Denholm Elliot in Indian Jones and the last crusade, I will now be changing my name by Deed Poll to "Depressed Cupboard Cheescake", to better represent my psychological state.
Thankyou, and.... Goodnight
I hope they don't make Slashdot change their name to "C:\".
This board isn't run by good people. It's run by petty tyrants. The success is a result of the readers/posters (even the FP'ers, trolls, etc.). - ghomwell
/. was and then never released anything. - Squirrel Killer
/.'s behavior per-user.
/., wouldn't you get a little bit of a power trip too?
/. can survive - will survive - with or without VA. You can like the model or hate it but it has worked and will continue to work.
It would have been a different thing had Taco been talking up how open
Honestly, I think the Truth lies in between these two statements. As a professional software developer, I know that just a few people (Marketing) whining about feature requests can add up to massive heartburn. Take a good swath of the Internet's geek population and turn them into your "Marketing Department", you're going to have to put up a lot of walls between yourself and your users. Slashdot isn't K5, it has at least twenty times the userbase. Has K5 been more responsive to user feature requests? Yes, but again, it's a different scale.
Is Slashdot the result of it's administrators or it's users? Well, yes. Look at Slashdot's leading story submitter and you'll find someone who has contributed a lot to Slashdot. But also take a look at Slash 2.2, and you'll find a near rewrite of slash, with a lot of new faces. The new Troll profiling and banning code implemented by Jamie McCarthy is a lot more sophisticated than anything any weblog has implemented before, with multi-level tracking by IP address, IP subnet, user account, hidden form gatekeepers (a form of "ICE"), and hidden user flags that silently alter
Is Slashdot ruled by petty dictators? Sure, read my sig. Read this. But also keep in mind that Slash has a dedicated community of really persistent jerks, so a "tyrannical" stance is reasonably justified. This userbase is quite possibly the most critical group of people on the planet.
Rob never had to GPL Slash or open the code up to user inspection, but he did it, and it's been the cause of a lot of heartburn for him. And he's stuck by his guns. Rob's user bio used to say "I have secret powers" for a long time. If you ran
Honestly I think all this speculation about VA whatever is out-of-band here. I think
Now if I could only be a user.
Are they planning on changing their ticker symbol or do they enjoy the contradiction of it all?
They're not planning on it, but the next ticker symbol for this company will be LNUXQ (followed quickly by LNUXQ.OB).
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
And I've been wondering... will enough heads explode while boggling that very question to just make it stop entirely?
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Another year, another name for Larry Augustin's company. Now accepting sealed prognostications for next years new name.
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