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Wikia Acquires Grub, Releases it Under Open Source
An anonymous reader writes "During a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the original visionary distributed search project, from LookSmart and released it under an open source license for the first time in four years. Grub operates under a model of users donating their personal computing resources towards a common goal, and is available for download and testing."
That's a good point, both your correction and the original joke/question. I don't know if the /. editors ever read discussions, but one thing they don't do that I think could help a lot is to clarify what a story is talking about. I read this and wondered, "Why does Wikia need a boot loader?" I clicked on the link and still wasn't sure they were talking about something other than the boot loader until I clicked on the website's home page.
Sometimes it would be a big help if a story explained what some acronyms are or explained what something was for people not up on that particular topic.