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Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today
dave writes "I founded and managed Linux Today in 1998, bringing it up from nothing into the most powerful and large Linux news website in the world, in less than a year. I am now calling on the Linux community to boycott my creation until its current owners stop accepting money from Microsoft to publish blatantly anti-Linux/pro-Microsoft ads."
I thought they were satirical editorial cartoons!
I founded and managed Slashdot from its inception to the present, bringing it up from nothing into the most powerful and large Linux news website in the world. I am now calling on the Linux community to boycott my creation until its current owners stop accepting money from Microsoft to publish blatantly anti-Linux/pro-Microsoft ads.
--CmdrTaco
OSDN also display same ads. BOYCOTT DevChannel, freshmeat, Geocrawler, IT Manager's Journal, Linux.com, NewsForge, Slashdot, SourceForge.net, ThinkGeek, Animation, Factory, Mediabuilder.
Boycott never worked (except for Gandhi) and will not work. Silly
LOL! I'm with you, brutha!
Slashdot is the wrong place to advocate a boycott of Linux today, tomorrow, or any other day!
In any case, michael should look twice at those headlines before posting them - "from the doh department" indeed.
People still see ads in their web browsers? How 1997!
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
If we are to boycott, how are we to know when they've stopped displaying the M$ ads?
Why, post it on slashdot of course!
(insert evil laughter sound here)
I can ignore or read a Microsoft add and I won't melt in anycase.
Personally, I enjoy seeing a Microsoft ad. Why? Because they just paid for something that was completely and utterly wasted. Seriously. Bring it on. Gives me something to laugh at and costs Microsoft money, it doesn't get much better than that.
Do you have ESP?
Yea, I would prefer to look at this more as guerilla warfare tactics, where Linux gets funded by its enemy. Linux grows stronger as Windows grows weaker.
...but I was horrified by the AOL ads! Boycott now!!
I read Maxim magazine.
Whoa, they have articles??
Freedom of the press*.
* footnote: for those who own a press
> Are Linux Today's readers too stupid to think for themselves?
I'm not really sure...what do you think?
Now LinuxWorld has an IBM add for their xServer! This is an intel-inside box! (There's even an official intelInside logo on the ad!) Clearly LinuxWorld is biased by accepting advertising from the original cause of the whole Wintel phenomenon - IBM! After all, you can't have PC-compatible without PC!
If you're going to boycott LinuxToday, you're also going to need to boycott the OSDN which runs many of the same ads.
Hmmm. Has /. has signed on to the boycott? Notice that there's no link to the 'offending' site? (Remember, a couple days or so ago, a /. story helpfully provided a link to slashdot.org.)
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Personally, I enjoy seeing a Microsoft ad. Why? Because they just paid for something that was completely and utterly wasted. Seriously. Bring it on. Gives me something to laugh at and costs Microsoft money, it doesn't get much better than that.
Now that you mention it... I'm gonna start enjoying those Pepsi ads more.
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You're absolutely right. In fact, I'm offended that the people from OSDN are refusing to put up ads for date-rape drugs and the fine establishments offering ads for baby killing and the beating of old ladies. How dare they not accept money from someone claiming something about "principles" or "ethics". Don't they know that money is all that's important?
I knew this day would come. Emperor Gates has foreseen it. Together we can rule the empire, father and son.
It is your destiny *breathes heavily*
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(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
Indeed. Linuxtoday.com
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Let me continue this silly thought...
"...I then sold Linux Today to internet.com for shitload of cash. I am told that they no longer lube the server transitors with tofu. I promise to donate the shitload of cash internet.com paid me for Linux Today to starving programmer / gamers in the inner-city."
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
LinuxToday should put in small letters under each advertisement (replacing version numbers as appropriate):
I like the Microsoft ads, though. It means that Microsoft is openly acknowledging that Linux is competition -- something they didn't do a few years ago. Plus they give me a good laugh every time I sit and watch one.
Mozilla Firefox doesn't let me view ads, so I never noticed. Thanks for telling me. While on the topic, does X10 still sell tiny wireless camera? Thanks Mozilla Team.
"I would never point a decision maker or prospective Linux user to a slashdot link. I might have once pointed them to a Linux Today link."
I agree, DickBreath. The goatse link ruined Slashdot for me too.
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> Your searching for a book on say Operating Systems, guess what category MS falls into.
virii?
I don't care! I am not going to boycott Linux--not today, not ever! For me it is clear that I should use Linux even though people like Darl McBride want otherwise. I just don't care!
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."