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.'"

Comments

Paid for it twice?

[TERdON]

Conectiva's former owners must have done good business. As we can read at here MandrakeSoft paid for it once yesterday too...

Again?

[bsharitt]

How many times can they acquire the same company in one day.

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[DarkMantle]

Actually, there's a big difference between the two. the title of the previous article says "Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva" as in it already happened. That post was sent to us from the future because this article says that "Mandrakesoft To Aquire Conectiva" as in it hasn't happened.

With time travelling news reporters named Trillian from Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, all of our news will be out BEFORE it happens. CNN's "News As It Happens" is a thing of the past....

Or is that present.

Stupid paradox..... :s

Look at the bright side

[bstadil]

At least it is not the same guy that submitted the story. I am holding out for Cowboyneal submitting same story twice on same day.

I understand Ladbrook is giving 9:1 currently

mirror...

[same_old_story]

right here

DUPE DAY

[zoloto]

Well, I say everytime we find a dupe - especially one within the same day and on the front page - we just dupe the comments and karma whore till our faces are numb and eyes are pained.

Just an example:

How? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199)
(http://fraggle.alkali.org/)

How do they have the money to do this? Werent they almost bankrupt about a year ago?

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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)

It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)

The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.

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Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running /. will start to notice... wait.. they dont' even read the front page, how are they going to notice the comments? D'OH!

*tears up plans and flushes them down the toilet*

NEXT!

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[LiquidCoooled]

Subscribers should have a button in the mysterious future.

Pressing it should sound an alarm and turn a lava lamp different colors.

Taco and Cowboy can get into their superhero costumes and slide down a pole to go and fight the evil menace.

Re:yep

[qewl]

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Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, so they posted the dupe first? Slashdot is getting good!

Plagerism!!!

[crow]

That was My post 11767258 in the original story.

Re:This is a dupe

[LiquidCoooled]

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?

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[jspoon]

It's a stock swap. No money is involved. So apparently there's nothing stopping them from swapping back and forth acquiring each other several times a day.

CowboyNeal... why even have the email link?

[powerlinekid]

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...

From a leaked OSTG corporate chatlog...

[KrackHouse]

Zonk> Damn slashdot junkies are calling us on our sloppiness. What'da we do?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> I read somewhere that redundancy is the mother of invention.
CmdrTaco> What?
Zonk> I know you are... But what am I?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> Who's on first?
CmdrTaco>Yes
Zonk>What?