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Total Commercialization Awareness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-for-your-own-good,-consumer dept.

jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute ..." That's so 1999.

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  1. Re:We'll always fnd a way around it!!! by grub · · Score: 5, Informative


    Who ever wrote this was smoking crack! [...] Honestly, I think that the person that wrote this was just looking to get a rise out of people.

    With all due respect, you have an amazing grasp of the obvious.

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  2. Ummm by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Informative

    I do believe Michael was making the joke that Slashdot already "sold out."

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  3. Re:Slashdot Timeline by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Come on, if you're gonna troll, at least give credit where credit is due.

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  4. Re:What a joke. by SunPin · · Score: 2, Informative
    Exactly my sentiments. Slashdot should have rejected this submission solely on the grounds that Salon--a magazine that people allegedly read more than,say, New Scientist--was trolling for traffic.

    I consider this piece of garbage to be irrefutable evidence that Salon is already dead.

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  5. I found this article to be informative by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Informative

    at least about the AAA. Once again, I learn something every day. Though the BWC needs a better server.

  6. wrong, Scoop by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Scoop is written in Perl.

    Scoop on Freshmeat

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  7. Re:Some of these are kind of funny by aWalrus · · Score: 5, Informative
    I wonder how many of those moves are due to arm-twisting by VA lawyers trying to get blood from a stone?

    How about none? Slash is open source. People are encouraged to use it. If they find a better alternative they can switch whenever they want to. No one forces them one way or the other. CmdrTaco or VA can't charge them for use of slash, Scoop is not written in C, it's perl, just as slash, and you're a well known troll who, incredibly, gets moderated up rather frequently.
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