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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.
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i hope it hurts. natalie pr0tman 4ever.
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After writing the parent comment, I was modded down 7 times on posts I made days ago.
Is it author abuse or multiple trolls?
I'll let you decide, but if its authors (with unlimit mod points), it destroys the entire idea of the community moderation system.
Posting anonymously to keep from being banned.
-FK
Ah, yes. Another hardcoded font size in a press release.
Question: Why is it that press releases, documents that we are sure companies want everybody to read, continue to hard code web page font sizes to about 6pt, in a light shade of gray?
Answer: Management and marketing types write press releases with MS Word and are too busy playing golf to simply open the URL in their browser to verify that the web monkey did his job. They are not concerned enough about their company to follow through on the basics.
I have to say, RedHat (an unabashed Linux company, I might add) is a pleasant exception to this rule. Check out one of their press releases.
Perhaps attention to "details" such as font sizes in HTML-format press releases also give us an idea of a company's ability to follow through with the technical aspects of its core business functions as well.
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That's right, & after several minutes of intense deliberation, we've decided NOT to rename linuxville, into softwareville, at this time, as that might tend to lesson our chances of becoming stock market billyunheirs. After our ipo dough, anything/everything goes.
Last few days to stake your claim to this possibly relevant web address, which could easily be renamed softwareworks, after your ipo.
There is an ugly rumour circulating that felonious frauduleNT fud, is NOT dead?
I'm alive.
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yeah and I still post anonymously with NeXT hardware none of the crappy apple stuff.
You don't actually expect an answer from them do you?
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Your livin' in the past man.
Quit livin' in the past!
Thad
oo yeah I bet that was a close and hotly contested vote.
This is a good thing really, they were draggng down linux businesses as a whole in the minds of businessmen by association. Now, if only they could get their stock ticker symbol changed....
Maybe if they became a Microsoft ISV, they'd start making money.
The funny thing is that some people seem to think it's a 'put down' to insert the dollar sign in place of the S in Microsoft.
The rest of us think dollars are pretty cool.
Bratty and ugly.
His name is Robert Malda.
Everybody knows that.
He's married to Mae Ling Mak. (naked and petrified)
Linux is dying.
Knox, you get more articles posted than just about anyone, and you're complaining? Shit, you are being groomed, lad. Now, go to your room and think about your misdeed. They'll soon be there to beat you with their rubber mammies.
I would think that /. editors would have seen this coming.............what happend did Taco forget to pass that memo on?
Newsforge is a pretty pitiful name for a news site in the first place. It's really just the companion news site for SourceForge, but standing alone it sounds like a place where News is forged/falsified.
That's a really awful image to carry as the name of your website, given how shaky and non-credible Web-based news sites are in general.
What does getting articles posted have anything to do with it my post?
Its not a complaint as much as a question.
-FK
They should probably change to FSCK, since the company looks FSCK'ed anyway.
I hope Rusty gets kuro5hin back up. Bet he'll be more anal about backups after this. One of the things I like about k5 is that it reminds me of what /. was a few years ago.
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I know, we're so saturated with every newspaper spouting off about "Linux" at every turn. I can't ever find any information on Jennifer Lopez.
Mostly I'm just jealous.
they sure got on and off of that bandwagon pretty quick.
If the planet is increasing its CO2 to the point where plants can thrive (which they can't yet, they need water for that), then you could seed plants on Mars, and then wait a couple hundred years for the plants to take over. Once the plants take over, there will be sufficient O2 in the air (plant waste byproduct) for humans.
I don't know if Mars's gravity is strong enough to actually keep the atmosphere from leaking, but hey, it's a start. Since oxygen is a heavier molecule than carbon, it might increase the surface pressure as well.
I am not an environmental scientist, so take all that with a grain of salt. I do, however, read a lot of science fiction, which as we all know is an acceptable substitute for actual learning.
Opinions change daily as new information arrives. Stay tuned.
I disagree. All the author's are considered "writers" or "journalists", right (hey, they came up with the titles, not me)?
Now, to use an analogy, suppose you have a buncha programmers (code monkeys) from a dot-com company. Everyone is pretty professional except Bob. He's always wearing ripped up jeans and stuff. The co-workers think he's pretty good at coding, but the customers think otherwise (he's always getting complaints). You are merging into a business with a professional dress policy. Are you gonna asking "How is Bob gonna fit with this new company?"
Obscure, but I think I make my point.
It's run by good people who are sick and tired of being flamed for every minor mistake
With fame comes scrutiny. If they don't like it, they need to drop from the limelight. Since they continue on, its part of the job. They need to handle it professionally, not just get pissed off and become tyrannical.
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This post also shows how clueless moderators are. Thank god for Meta Moderation. This is anti-informative because it gives the complete opposite situation of the LNUX stock.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
How can the parent of this post be listed as "Flamebait"? Unless Moderation has been passed on to the board of VA Software or to major stock holders in VA Whatever, this has to be moderation gone astray. Thank god for meta moderation.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
bullshit! sez who?