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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
soneca writes "From the last two years, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned the country into a tropical outpost of the free software movement. The government is switching from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems."
The more cynical minded of us might see all these dupes as a way to get more ad revenue. More articles = more ad space to sell + more impressions = more money for Slashdot.
Sure. Then, please editors, mark it in some way.
With a different color, with sticking a link - "Repeat of this and that", but the most importantly with an option in preferences to switch showing dupes off.
Editors can go on the way and say "uh, it's not a bug, it's a feature", but then act like as if it would be a feature! I would even be happy if they would offer the option to switch off dupes for subscribers only.
My personal opinion is that it's a bug and editors don't do enough to handle it. In my previous post i offered my help (email sent, btw).
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If you miss a day or more, look at the "Older Stuff" panel on the right of the main stories, where as I write you can see the stories posted yesterday, including Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times. Then you can go back for as many more days as you want. It's not like "important" stories are duped to bring them to your attention, it's random.
I'm pretty tired of reading this type of defence, it holds as much merit as the "just delete it" excuse spammers use -- and I suppose my annoyance is for a similar reason, someone pushing crap I don't need at me; spammers out of malice, slashdot editors out of laziness.