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New Slashdot T-Shirts On Sale Now
ThinkGeek has opened up their Slashdot Store, which among other fineries, is selling the all new Slashdot T-Shirts. We also have a surprise: In addition to the 3 winners we announced previously, by popular request, we added a 4th winner to the roster: Dan Sandler's 'Soothing Green Light' design. So go, buy all 4! And a hat! Do it! Also, Scott Lewallen made Icons & Wallpapers based on his Volatile Hyper Linkage design.
I don't have a problem with them selling shirts. Yay for them.
What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).
Doubtful, but I would like to see more options in the preferences for site design.
Something like:
1) Graphics heavy (new design with spiffier graphics)
2) Traditional (as is)
3) Low-bandwidth (for Lynx users)
For a lot of the geeks I know, where the heck are the XS and XXS sizes?
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Here's a clue: what did OSDN's sites do when most sites in the world protested against software patents adoption in the EU, by putting a blank page or at least a notice?
Zero. Nothing. Nada.
Not a single word came from any of their sites, and it would have helped the cause a big fscking lot, but also give them a bad PR in the corporate world.
No trolling intended. Companies are after profits, there's nothing wrong with that, and OSDN is a company. We must expect a change of mind in the corporate direction when a bunch of techies become a succesful company.
So, yes, they own all the rights of the material users will submit. Again, there's nothing wrong about that; then how about submitting your art elsewhere?
I'd love to get a polo type shirt with the ./ logo on it - I could wear it to work! :)
Come on I need something to carry around the go juice...
What's the deal with T-1 lines anymore...for downloading, not really a big deal. On a cable modem I usually get equal speed on up to 1000kbps more. So you can run a server at a higher upload speed, but on the Internet, it is always better to receive than to give. And it's dirt-cheap in comparison.
Say T-3, and then I start to get weak-kneed.
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