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Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking'
miller60 writes "Open source evangelist Bruce Perens has launched OpenSourceParking, a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software. The project is a response to a large gain by Microsoft in the April Netcraft survey, with Windows' share jumping 5 percent as domain registrar Go Daddy moved 4.5 million parked domains from Linux to Windows Server 2003. To regain that share, Perens is calling on open source users to park undeveloped domains at OpenSourceParking, with the advertising revenue being used to fund political advocacy efforts on behalf of open source software. Parking-for-profit has grown into a significant business in recent years. Despite ambivalence over the value of these sites, Perens appears to believe it merits a focused effort for the open source community."
...chime in now, so that many years down the road, I might look back on this post and feel a sense of righteousness, or something (yeah, I plan on living a terribly pathetic life, since I'll be returning to slashdot to boost my ego).
How is this good or beneficial to Linux? We already saw arguments over in the recent "Firefox user stats" thread about how numbers don't mean anything to the people concerned, and how it might even be argued that the people who would rely on numbers are exactly the sort of people that Open Source has little interest in at the moment - being that they account for 90%* of all idiotic technical support timewasting questions.
It's like a poster above said about switching pedophiles to Linux, only worse - Linux still has to combat a certain "cowboy hax0r d00d3" legacy in the fields its most interested in (the Workplace, the High End Market) - and seeing "WELCOME TO GOOGALL.COM! CLICK HERE TO SEARCH FOR ALL PRODUCTS ON GOOGALL! GOOGALL XBOX 360 GOOGAL XXX GOOGAL ADULT GOOGAL IPOD GOOGAL WEBCAM GOOGAL MODCHIP YOUR INTERNET IS BEING MONITORED RIGHT NOW, CLICK HERE FOR INFO this site powered by Linux" on every former 404 / typo URL isn't exactly going to endear the Linux name to the average decision-making Middle Manager in Charge of Accounts at BigCompanyConCo.
Anyway, just my $0.02 / YMMV / mod me down all you want / Bill Gates Sux / Linux rulez / IANAL / Cowboy Neal in Soviet Russia / FP FP FP FP FP FP / PONIES POINES PONEYS / etc
(*) - numbers fudged with tongue firmly in the ironic cheek
Slashdot "Old" news for nerds stuff that matters.
I'm sure "nerds" would have got this news days ago
from Linux Weekly news or others
Yes legalise them and start making them pay Taxes so everyone can benefit . ,we can at least do something useful with the revenue
If people are going to park domains , and there is no way to stop it
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though