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Andover.Net Acquires Freshmeat.Net
Today Andover.Net announced that they
have acquired Freshmeat. They promise
never to put scoop and I in the same room for fear of the carnage
that would ensue. (j/k). Actually scoop had all the same reasons
as I did: running Freshmeat has been a hectic one man show for a long
time. Andover has done of good job giving me the resources I've needed to allow Slashdot to expand, and now they'll give scoop the
same helping hand with fm. Very cool.
Disclaimer: I work at Andover.Net (..and getting
/. as
tired of typing that)
Yes, Freshmeat will have one ad banner like
far as I know. Don't know what will happen to
existing mirrors -- right now we're indifferent
about mirrors. Our first priority is setting up
scoop on a rack of servers that can handle more
traffic.
Basically our attitude toward Freshmeat is the
same as Slashdot: let the existing site managers
do whatever they want and we feed them as much
hardware and bandwidth as they need to do it.
In a sudden move, Andover.Net bought Microsoft, this afternoon. When asked about the deal, William (Pentium) Gates III said that it would ensure Windows 2000 got prominent placement on Freshmeat, and a review on Slashdot. When it was pointed out to the Chairman of Microsoft that nobody who read either service was likely to buy Windows 2000, he answered that he was aware of this. He just wanted to see computer geeks throw up over their keyboards.
Andover.Net declined to be interviewed, but issued a press statement that it would solve the energy crisis, should the Y2K bug shut down the national grid. By putting Scoop, CmdrTaco and Bill Gates in the same room, they expect a matter/antimatter reaction to be initiated, providing power to the US for the next century.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I wonder what this means. Slashdot was certainly shaken up a bit at first, but now it seems to be back on track again (Roblimo is doing pretty well now!)
Currently Freshmeat has no source of income, right? They're quite a different animal from Slashdot. So I guess this means they'll start having banner ads, correct? And the mirroring by other companies would probably stop too, right? (I mean, it's one thing to do something out of the good of your heart for poor scoop, but what about for Andover?) Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Just wondering what their plans are for it, since it's quite different from Slashdot.