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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
People still see ads in their web browsers? How 1997!
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
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.
> Are Linux Today's readers too stupid to think for themselves?
I'm not really sure...what do you think?
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.
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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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
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."