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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've created a monster, cuz nobody wants to
see Marshall no more they want Shady I'm chopped liver well if you want Shady, this is what I'll give ya.
Sorry, that's better than the inevitable Frankenstein jokes right?
Sent from your iPad.
"SearchEnterpriseLinux: Windows, Linux to Win War Over Data Center"
Linux is UNIX. Shouldn't this read "Windows, UNIX, to Win War Over Data Center"? Oh, wait, who does that leave?
"CyberIndia Online: Linux Does Not Depend on Microsoft's Failure"
Well, sorta. It does depend on Microsoft failing to squash Linux like a bug.
this is a fucking assraping flamebait, moron.
Learn about the many betrails by slashdot's editors at anti-slash
A bunch of people calling on a boycott against a website for accepting money from a rival company. They do this by posting on a website that accepts money from the same rival company and sticks their big ads everywhere. This from the "free speech" community.
Slashdot is corporate-owned; I don't think a lot of people realize that. The very day Slashdot stuck banner ads on their stories was the day it lost all credibility for me. Of course, VA Linux strikes back with their "tech news" site by conveniently posting a lot of misleading articles negative toward its competitor. Sleaze goes both ways.
There used to be Kuro5hin to go to, but that place is a complete mess. Slashdot remains the unfortunate bastion of geek news on the Internet at the moment. I pray for something more open to replace it!
"Sufferin' succotash."
Who cares what linus thinks?
Repeat after me folks:
Linux is not a religon.
Linus is not a god.
Good.
Now move out of your parents basements and read something other than slashdot.
Gasp! You're right! Now I'm MORALLY OBLIGATED to keep going to linuxtoday.com regularly or I'll be a Stalin-loving hypocritical Richard Stallman hippie zealot!!!
Go away, troll.
How can anybody in their right mind support MS when that company provides bad quality products, breaks laws world-wide, pays most of it's employees, less than industry standard wages, endlessly tries to crush open source software developemnt while simultaniously wanting to talk to open source developers, supports software patents as a method of controlling the world of software developemnt, Ms is evil and the big problem is a lot of other companies world-wide have noticed how successful they have been and are now copying this behaviour world-wide. No wonder the world is in such a mess.
thouroughly discredited in slashdot news stories.
The fact that you think a freaking Slashdot news story ever discredited anything shows your anti-"M$" agenda to begin with. Nobody discredited it. You meant to say that a bunch of Linux fanboys expressed how much it was "flawed" just because they like Linux and they said so.
To think Slashdot ever had the integrity and journalistic know-how to ever discredit anything is ludicrous. This place is the Aint-It-Cool-News of the technology sector.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Of course, the Linux geeks laugh about those Microsoft ads. But those are not the target. Microsoft is paying money so that if somebody that gets interested into Linux as a possible alternative will get the right information when visiting a Linux news site:
Microsoft's TCO is lower than that of Linux, and Microsoft has a product and service to sell. And there is nothing similar to be found for Linux, not even on the news sites for Linux itself organized by Linux people.
The message is clear: there is no business to be made with Linux, or the ad space would not be taken by Microsoft.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Thakadu you make an interesting point. You see, I've long believed that stupidity (or in the context of this discussion, dishonesty) always trumps intelligence or honesty because someone who is intelligent and honest is always willing to listen to reason and different viewpoints. But someone stupid or dishonest will always win because their opinions are not based on truth or logic. A liberal will always say "that's a good point, and there's a grain of truth to what you say" but a conservative will say "goddam you queers and commies, you should all be locked up." Dishonesty/stupidity always trumps honesty/intelligence.