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Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva
An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. 'Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Conectiva, the number one Linux company in Brazil and Latin America. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"
I heard they acquired Conectiva earlier.
Come on editors, READ YOUR OWN DAMN SITE.
Come on... the story is right on the front page still... same title... Are you people completely blind?
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Conectiva's former owners must have done good business. As we can read at here MandrakeSoft paid for it once yesterday too...
I have a really elegant proof for Fermat's last theorem. If this sig was only a bit longer...
How many times can they acquire the same company in one day.
...but that would fit with the site.
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It's still on the front page!
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/24/154620
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^---------^ Holy overreactions Batman!
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future? Holy shit!
Come on guys, have some sympathy.
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I mean, once Mandrake aquired Connectiva, they had to reboot to load the new kernel. It's only natural that you'd see the message twice.
Shessh
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I understand Ladbrook is giving 9:1 currently
Help fight continental drift.
right here
Just an example:
How? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199)
(http://fraggle.alkali.org/)[ Reply to This ]
Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
(http://www.votecrow.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 01, @01:30PM)
Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running
*tears up plans and flushes them down the toilet*
NEXT!
Acquisition went so well that they are now thinking about acquiring Conectiva, as well.
SuSE still owned the linux desktop in Europe last I checked. That being said, they're no longer a European distro as they're now owned by Novell, headquartered in Provo, Utah. Therefore SuSE is no longer a European company, despite the fact that they may still have the market share.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
That was My post 11767258 in the original story.
If a press release is posted somewhere, its entirely possible for multiple people to read the same story at a similar time. Consider also the syndication via AP or other sites - look at how Google handles dupes, most single news items have 1000s of sites all saying the same thing.
Each of the readers of these thousands of sites can decide to submit their take on the story, and so for every single bit of syndicated news travelling the web, there could for certain stories be thousands of submissions (i hazard its usually much less though).
The editors themselves have to filter through all these and find out what interests THEM, what stands out from the rest. They have to read and judge all these, and quite quickly decide which to post. The single story you see could be from a flood of 100 similar "dupes" themselves, so the editor thinks its new and picks the best one at that moment.
</ponder>
I can quite easily see WHY they happen, perhaps we could help the editors by making a submission scanner and search function. An interface to google news (as somebody pointed out recently, they manage to index very quickly so would catch most) would be simplest I think. Even just using link domains as an initial "this might already have been posted very recently" test would help them out.
Any perl hacks out there got any ideas?
liqbase
For the first time ever I emailed that this was a dupe to the editors before it was put on the front page.
I even linked to the story and mentioned it was on the frontpage.
So now we know they not only don't read their site, but they don't read email about their site. Which leads to the question of... what do you actually do? You don't edit. You submit anything Roland whatever posts. You post shit that has already been posted. You let Michael post amaingly misleading items.
Bah I'm done. Well heres one less subscriber...
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