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Three Takers Named for Microsoft's Linux Support

Posted by Zonk on from the step-right-up dept.

narramissic writes "According to an article on ITworld, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, and AIG Technologies have signed on for Microsoft's technical support for Novell Inc.'s Suse Enterprise Linux. This follows last month's announcement of a deal between Novell and Microsoft that Steve Ballmer described as an effort to 'bridge the divide between open-source and proprietary-source software.' None of the companies cited the price of the support certificates, nor would they say how many they were activating. Even more interesting, Credit Suisse is a brand new cusomter for Novell."

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  1. Re:And so it begins. by mha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the Slashdot moderating system is VERY badly broken. I would very much prefer to see "insightful" articles instead of junk when I view articles labled as "insightful" and "5". It seems that most posters derive their pleasure from causing displeasure rather than from having been able to make a good intelligent argument.

    Maybe it's time to start thinking about a new moderation system. For example:
    - Leave the current system for those who are not interested in the new system
    - Add a new category of "Premium Posters", and the ability for viewers to read only their postings and postings modded up by such members
    - Premium Members pay money into a pot (fully refundable, not a fee!!!)
    - Every Premium Member who mis-behaves looses some of his otherwise refundable deposit (those fines might be distributed to Unicef or to other Prem. Members, just an example)
    - Prem. Members who are consistently rated highly receive money, because they are a driving force behind the power of the website and have "high employee value"

    Et voila! There's a reason both A) for the members to behave and THINK before posting, and B) fro viewers to encourage and prefer "Premium Members". It is important, I think, that there is a distinction between people paying a fee and people paying a fully refundable deposit for what I just described - this kind of "moderation system" should not be confused with how the website makes money, because that would erode trust.