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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!
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!
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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