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"Show Us the Code" Breaks Its Silence
DigDuality writes with an explanation of the silence of the Show Us the Code initiative. The push he began — to gather influential sponsors demanding that Steve Ballmer reveal what Linux code he believed to be infringing Microsoft patents — was discussed here last February. "Show Us the Code has been silent since March 23. May came and went — the deadline allotted for calling Ballmer's bluff — but the site gave no update. I now explain the silence. After a scheduled interview with Forbes columnist Dan Lyons didn't happen, and my place of employment falsely accused me of representing that they endorsed my own political goals, I decided it was best to shut my mouth so I would be able to keep paying my bills. I'm glad to see Linus now publicly echoing the sentiments that this site espoused. Maybe someone already accustomed to the limelight will have better luck in challenging Microsoft's FUD machine."
You get that too?
Sure, we're all guilty of some occasional borderline trolling, but I genuinely fail to understand the motivation of someone who ceaselessly downmods and harasses random slashdot users they decide they don't like.
Shit, I automatically +5 my foes'/freaks' comments.
IMHO, Slashdot badly needs a way to metamod overrated, redundant, and other such downmods.
That and the mods need to learn the actual meaning of the word troll. But... I'll take babysteps.
Possibly that's the case already. Even though the goofus(es) have been at it for a while, my "karma" seems largely unaffected, which I think would not be otherwise the case given the relative numbers of mod points in play.