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The SCO Boomerang and the Strength of Linux
karvind writes "PJ of Groklaw has written an insightful article on benefits flowing from SCO's litigation: GPL stands up in court, the community bonded more tightly than ever, encouraged increased support for FOSS and last but not the least heightened awareness of the benefits of using GNU/Linux systems. Article is also on Yahoo and NewsFactor."
Dear Slashdot users,
/. for entertainment and news. Not to not to waste time.
/. are US geeks. Start a EuroDot if you want.
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I am not your mom. Do you write to your boss with the word 'dear'?
I'm an IT / technology fan and have been a slashdot lurker for quite a few months now. I'm interested in improving the site and recently myself and a group of investers have been in discussion with the guys at Andover. We have made them an offer they cannot refuse - In short, we are planning to buy Slashdot. It is much in need of a makeover and if all goes to plan here are my ideas so far:
Good luck. Like anybody gives a shit.
- Website look and feel change: Come on, it's no longer 1998 guys.
Doesn't matter. I come to slashdot to get news, not have visual blowjobs.
- Bring the site in line with current web standards as is suggested here. [alistapart.com]
Don't care, won't care.
- Keep the current line of editors but base their continued employment on their performance and a quarterly vote by readers. If an overwhelming amount of readers want a particular editor to leave then their opinion will be taken into consideration. On the other hand we could go for a completely new team of editors - what do you guys think?
Turn Slashdot into a democracy? With the quality of trolls, and dead nigger assiociation members that like to hang out here I think that it would be like leading lambs into a den of wolves.
- Dupe prevention scripts. This has been requested time and time again and now it will be implemented.
How about dupe prevention editors? I think that would be much more usefull.
anyways the idiots that care about dups and spend evenings complaining about it obviously are to much of nitpickers and should be ignored.
Similar with gramar nazis. These are a tiny minority of people that get their rocks off by continiously finding flaws in others. Should be ignored by sane people.
- Remove the karma system. All this has done is make karma whoring a competition. It is ineffective and a waste of time.
It provides people with a purpose in life. If you take it away it would be akin to taking away the points system in Worlds of Warcraft.
The heads would roll and the blood would flow. Best just leave it if you value your life and the lives of your family.
Just like me being a anonymous luser. I come to
- Remove the moderation system. I don't really feel it adds anything: for example I see too many posts moderated out of sight just because the poster's opinion is not in line with Slashdot group think.
The ignore the commits and talk about it on your own newsgroup with people that agree with your viewpoints.
It's safer that way.. you realy don't want to know what people think, do you?
- Less intrusive adverts. I'm considering google text adverts as a replacement to the current ads.
The adverts are not intrusive. If you care, you should stop becuase it doesn't matter.
- Make slashdot more international: I know it has traditionally been a US-centric site but it would be good to see more of a balance of articles from around the globe.
It's US centric because the vast majority of people that submit articles and read
That sounds a lot more usefull then any of the dozen obviously bullshit bullet points you posted here.
BTW it's obvious your full of shit about buying
- Roland Piquepaille - articles linked from this guy's blog have to go. So far as I can see he adds no content to articles and we may as well have them from the original source.
- No more subscriptions: Everyone from now on will be treated equal and enjoy the same features without having to pay.
- More user features: Enhanced profile (similar to Fark perhaps?), longer sigs, image attachment to posts (up to a certain size and
And no one cares "parse" you pseudo-programmer-elititist style. The parent clearly said he thought IBM did not test the GPL - even though he is wrong.
Definition of Parse:
parse (as in "analyze") v. : analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
It is not the same as saying I disagree...