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LinuxToday Acquired By Internet.com

Posted by Hemos on from the dealing-with-the-world dept.

debrain writes "Looks like LinuxToday was acquired by internet.com. " No numbers were specified - LinuxToday will be joining Internet.com's LinuxPlanet.

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  1. See their corporate page by jflynn · · Score: 3
    According to the internet.com site, they already did in June 1999, symbol INTM.

    It also mentions that they are 20% of Mecklermedia, which was acquired by Penton Media in Nov. '98. Anyone know anything about those corporations?

    The copyright notice at the bottom seems to me (IANAL) to gobble up all rights to posted comments as well, but that may be typical of sites other than Slashdot.

    And of course, Microsoft is listed as a major sponsor. But that probably applies to over half the web as well.

    I'd like to hear confirmation from LT and their slant on this.

  2. Hmm. by drwiii · · Score: 2
    I suppose this is good from a marketing standpoint.. I just find it a bit unsettling that all these community sites are being locked into corporate agendas.

    Congratulations, Andover, you now have a competitor.

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  3. internet.com history by ajs · · Score: 4

    Interesting. I used to have a lot of friends who worked for "The Internet Company, Inc." which was internet.com before they failed and sold the domain off.

    This was always one of the scarriest things to me. How can a company that owns internet.com fail?! All you have to do is put a credit-card submission form on your home page with a "give us a dollar and get your name on our site" or whatever. Remember, if you just type "internet" into most browsers, you end up at internet.com. How many newbies do you think do this? The answer, as I recall, was lots.

    Ah well, leave it to a startup to not see what they've got.

  4. Re:The Open Source Market by SoftwareJanitor · · Score: 2

    If you don't like consolidation, you can always help deconsolidate things by creating your own opensource discussion venue. You don't even have to do the coding, as there is software you can download.

  5. andover.net or opensource community? by poopie · · Score: 2

    Gee, have you noticed how our favorite opensource sites have started linking to the "ANDOVER.NET PARTNER SITES" and not to the other opensource sites?

    here's an example: appwatch.com - not a bad site at all, and yeah so maybe freshmeat did it first, but is andover.net keeping them (and anyone else who's not in their clutches) out of the opensource spotlight?

    when nobody's making MILLIONS of dollars from opensource stuff, it's easy to stay fair and impartial, but when the people running the sites have to answer to management and not the opensource community, things change :(

    :(

    It all sort of sucks. Those of us who haven't made our millions off opensource yet and still code/compile/etc becuase we actually LOVE to do it seem to be the ones getting the short end of the stick while other get rich from our work.

    maybe slasldot/andover should offer a financial reward for slashdotters who post stories and moderate... that seems plenty fair to me. Share and enjoy, right?

  6. Question: by Rabbins · · Score: 2

    So when are they going public?