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Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods
malx writes "Says the Financial Times: 'Matsushita and Sony have agreed to jointly develop the Linux operating system for digital consumer electronic products, in a highly unusual and cooperative deal between two of the fiercest rivals in the industry.' Interesting because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even more scared of Microsoft." update Sorry, it's a dupe.
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No what this shows is that Sony is using Linux as a poster child in an anti-Microsoft marketing campaign. They could give a shit about Linux, they just want to fuel the fire.
Instead of a repeated slashdot story, how about some boobies?
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I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
News that matters so much, we post it twice, sometimes three times.
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
I can't wait to brush my teeth with the first linux powered toothbrush....
magnanomous.
I I think think this this is is a a dupe dupe.
So, these two electronics behemoths will be building a Linux platform for consumer electronics. This will be another embedded version of Linux then. How will this be different from, say, BlueCat? BlueCat is an embedded Linux development platform and has the embedded kernel, plus the cross compiler and all the goodies you need. It targets multiple processors, too. Will there be any advantage to this new system over existing products?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
and we will soon be seeing Linux in consumer electronics.
Worst. Sig. Ever.
While the Sony's have lived in the modern world for awhile, and have gotten it, as well as being on both sides of it, Matsuhita electric is perhaps the most traditional and conservitive of Japanese companies. I have known these people (Matsushita) for much of my life, from some of their board members down. This is an organization so steeped in it's own traditions and dogma (yes, they really do have a "250 year" business plan, and never make fun of the founders light bulb socket :), with engineering departments so conservitivily organized, that for them to support open development of GPL software is really much like the Pope encouraging contraction!
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You guys have to be planning all of these dupes, right? Big joke, big ha-ha?
There should be a way to moderate articles themselves (like posters comments) that way, if
an article was modded to -10000 dupe, it wouldn't show up on my front page - if I'm logged in of course.
could you please repeat that?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Interesting because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even more scared of Microsoft.
I don't see how anything said in the article shows they are "scared of Microsoft". Not only that but the article goes on to mention Sony will still be using Windows on the Vaio. If they were truly "afraid" of Microsoft they would dump Windows.
Maybe it's just me but the price and flexability of Linux made them choose it over Microsoft's products. In this case tt is a smart business decision both from a financial and technical standpoint.
Perhaps I'm just an optimist.
I think we all agree that the duped article problem is only getting worse. Funny, but i don't remember see any articles duped in 2001 or earlier. Did something change at OSDN that might explain this?
... a simple check of any URLs posted in a new article against URLs in the previous month's articles would go along way to eliminating dupes. However, it wouldn't have caught this one, since the original article linked to a Sony press release, and this one links to a news site reporting the release.
Anyway
So what other ways (besides forcing a manual check) can we build into the slash code to help stop this in the future, before an article is posted? A comparison of similar words? Or do we add something for after-the-fact moderation: article meta-moderators who can delete an article if it's found to be a dupe?
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Because I don't have time to read the story twice: Is this story about the Good Sony (The Linux on PS2 Sony) or the Bad Sony (one of the cornerstones of the RIAA)
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Timothy, Michael.
Michael, Timothy.
I just thought that you gentlemen might want to be introduced to one another, since you seem to share tastes in reading material.
I mean, for pity's sake, as of my writing this, it's still on the front page.
In a world without walls, there is no need for Windows.
... it's called 'Slashdot'. You should read it sometime.
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Dupes
Slashdot gets slashdotted
Bitching about Karma Whores
Dupes
Beowulf clusters, first post and Soviet Russia
Cowboy Neal gets duped
Worst. Sig. Ever.
To jumpstart their highly cooperative effort, and in an attempt to appease to many geeks, both Sony and Matsushita submitted news stories to Slashdot.org, a geek terrorist hangout.
After both stories made the front page of the outlaw website, Sony and Matsushita expressed doubts about the level of cooperation.
"If we can't get this right, how are we going to resolve more complex issues?" said Matsushita representative.
Sony representative made a similar point, adding that the two companies will go back to being fierce rivals again.
They should create a pref to put all dupes in just so I can turn it off.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Exactly how much did VA Linux pay for you guys ?
Similar article located here.
Get off your ass and type some code then...
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Quoted from the FAQ for all you lazy people. [*]
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
If you see a duplicate, you can mail the story's author. If the story is still quiet, we may pull it down. However, once the comments are rolling in, we often leave the story up so that the discussion can continue.
Some people have suggested that there might be a software solution to this problem. If you think you've got one, visit the Slashcode site and submit a diff. As long as it isn't a performance hit, I'd consider using it. (Be aware however that the trick of searching for duplicate URLs isn't as helpful as you might think, since the same story can appear in multiple locations.)
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Last Modified: 10/28/00
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Looks like I boosted the color spec... should have written 4 colors!
follow my .sig...
Or, how about a new topic: "Duplicate Stories". This way, if we enjoy dupes, we can read them. Otherwise, we can exclude the Dupe topic.
Oh, wait, what if we get dupes in the "Duplicate Stories" category?
Religion is the opium of the people. Evolution is the opium of scientists.
So you posted this to the queue, eh? Read the guidelines!
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
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You mean is it a story about the Sony that's Helping Us, or about the Sony that's Trying to Kill Us?
There are reasons why democracy does not work nearly as well as capitalism.
-- David D. Friedman
Slashdot posts about a dozen articles a day. If you factored in 5 minutes to verify the link, skim the article, and check for dupes it would total 60 MINUTES A DAY of work!
Given the value of their stock options, don't you think they've got better things to do?
ME WANT! If this gets carried by my cable company I WILL get cable again!
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You get karma from slashdot everything a story you submitted gets posted.
To build your karma quickly, just submit, under your account, every story that get posted to slashdot. At the going rate of double-posts, the law of averages predicts that your karma will build quickly.
The previous post of this article was only seven hours ago!
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"Interesting because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even more scared of Microsoft"
Um no, this does not 'show they're even more scared of Microsoft'. Sony has always been the type of company to try to control every little aspect of any product they make. In a case like this, they can control the OS.
Sony doesn't like sharing their pie. It has nothing to do with 'fear of Microsoft'.
There were at least two palettes. You could also have white, black, brown/red, and green if you wanted. There might have been as many as four palettes, but I'm not clear.
The enemies of Democracy are
This is a duplicate of the above post.
Golly, it must be hard to keep up with everything posted on this site.
Carthago delenda est!
Does OSDN actually PAY these "editor" guys ??
Are the comments (to the different headlines) substansively different?
If the comments are different, does it really matter if the linked story happens to be the same?
It is their buisness, it is their responsibility, slashdot is not free contrary to what some people believe there is a buisness plan here. But you having a job really is beside the point. The whole point of OSS is that if you don't like something you can change it. It works because if enough people don't like something someone WILL change it. Whether or not you do anything when your not you do things outside the OSS world has nothing to do with whether or not your whinny ass is bitching about things you don't like in a system you could fix instead of bitching about.