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Slashdot Turns 5
As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot, I figured I'd just take
a moment to say that Slashdot is 5 years old now. I've written a
Journal Entry with a few more comments on the subject. And yes we know we jumped the shark about a week after we registered the domain name, but we just don't care! Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks. (As a side note, due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut, but I spent september 97 putting the site together... and when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
Who knew that decay could start at such a young age?
Linux 8.0 proves it - charging 150 bucks for "free" software (yeah, so they sell you the source, so fucking what). If Microsoft did that, you'd be spewing pizzacheese all over this site. But there's no integrity here - no one to say: "well, we were wrong, any successful project that grows beyond a certain threshold becomes a commercial monster". Linux too. The launch of Linux 8 marks the death of this site and the whole sad "Linux Culture" fiasco.
"You still have the problem with the trolls lingering around"
Speak for yourself, I read at +2! Are first posters and goatsex links still a problem then? My Katz filter also works fine.
Still, some people like to complain...
i feel really sorry for you.
SlashDot certainly acts it's age. :)
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