Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:10:51 -0500 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> To: lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, malda@slashdot.org, editor@linux.com, Subject: When times get hard
It hit the papers today that VA Linux Systems is going to have to cut 25% of its staff. The press release, as usual, was bland and neutral, emphasizing our healthy revenue growth and our bright prospects -- the kind of corporate-speak everybody expects, and that VA has to generate. It's part of the game.
It's no secret that I'm on VA's Board of Directors. I was at the board meeting where the five-odd people who have the responsibility to advise Larry Augustin told him what he had to do. I was part of that decision, and it was not an easy one.
I'm not speaking for VA now (I basically never try to do that anyway; it's not my job). I'm speaking for myself. It was a weird, wrenching feeling to wander around VA headquarters that afternoon, talking with good friends of mine, knowing in a few cases that they were likely to be canned through no special fault of their own.
What VA is going through now is a sort of ritual bloodletting. The logic of the market is pitiless; when you don't make your numbers, the investors want to be appeased by evidence that you're doing things to raise your profitability. That means making more dollars per employee, and the fastest way to get there, the way investors effectively *demand* that you get there, is by laying off your least dollar-yielding employees.
Otherwise, you get what is politely called "loss of investor confidence". Companies go on life support when that happens -- they can't get capital by selling shares, and that has ripple effects -- it tends to make potential customers bolt. When the customers bolt, the company runs out of money and die. Or it gets acquired, either by a large competitor or (worse) by a slice-n-dice artist who will sell off the assets and shitcan the company.
I went along with the 25% cuts because I understood the possible alternative: no company. And no employees. And no possibility that my friends will ever be able to come back to work for a company they still love and care about.
I think VA's problems are solvable ones. The company got rocked by the popping of the dot.com bubble and the economic downturn we're in. But we know what we have to do to deal with that. In order to avoid making what the SEC calls "forward-looking statements" I'm not going to talk about our strategy or future prospects here; you can go ask VA's corporate-communications folks about that.
But the real reason I'm writing this little broadside is larger than VA; it's about the state of the open-source community, and the things we need to keep in mind when times get hard.
VA, along with Red Hat, is one of the two bellwethers of the open-source business community. Some people are going to freak out and think this setback is a harbinger of doom, that it means our community's game is over. Some people, especially at certain monopolistic closed-source competitors I don't need to name, know better -- that troubles like VA's are pretty common in a market downturn -- but they'll use it as ammunition in a FUD campaign anyhow. Expect to see Steve Ballmer and Jim Alchin quietly gloating at any trade-press reporter they can collar. Brace for it.
And, as it says in large friendly letters on the back of the Hitchhiker's Guide, DON'T PANIC! What we're seeing now is entirely normal. It's the long, dizzy boom time that has just ended, all smiles and champagne and venture capital sloshing around looking for business plans, that has been exceptional. Business cycles happen, there are layoffs and retrenchments all over the economy -- and this, too, shall pass. Things will get better.
There is actually one good thing for us about economic slumps. During them, IT departments and software users in general feel pressure to cut costs. That makes low-cost and free software more attractive. Over the next few months you can expect to see a lot of submarine Linux deployments suddenly surfacing as managers realize that they'll look *good* on their quarterlies if they cut their licensing and service costs, and as the techies working for them get that message and fess up to how many NT boxes they've been replacing by stealth.
So the downturn isn't all bad news for us, by any means. We just needto keep doing what we're doing, the best work we can. And when the economy picks up again, we will have gained by it.
Back at IPO time I wrote an essay called "Surprised By Wealth" in which I tried to deal with how weird it felt to have a theoretical net worth of $41 million. Am I upset that all that "wealth" is gone, at least until the stock bounces back? Well...yes and no. As a member of VA's Board, it's my job to worry about our stock price, on behalf of all of our stockholders. So I care about that.
But personally? Nah. I wasn't in this for the bucks then, and I'm not now. Like most hackers, I do what I do for love and I thank the gods that I can occasionally talk people into paying me money for it. Feels almost like taking advantage of them sometimes, doesn't it?
All the corporate stuff is not, after all, the point -- the point is to change the world, to do better software and give users more choices. It's been a nice party, but some of us did get a little distracted by all that easy money flowing around. If the slump does nothing else but take our eyes off those dollar signs and put them firmly back on the work, maybe it will have been the best thing for us after all.
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:10:51 -0500 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> To: lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, malda@slashdot.org, editor@linux.com, Subject: When times get hard
It hit the papers today that VA Linux Systems is going to have to cut 25% of its staff. The press release, as usual, was bland and neutral, emphasizing our healthy revenue growth and our bright prospects -- the kind of corporate-speak everybody expects, and that VA has to generate. It's part of the game.
It's no secret that I'm on VA's Board of Directors. I was at the board meeting where the five-odd people who have the responsibility to advise Larry Augustin told him what he had to do. I was part of that decision, and it was not an easy one.
I'm not speaking for VA now (I basically never try to do that anyway; it's not my job). I'm speaking for myself. It was a weird, wrenching feeling to wander around VA headquarters that afternoon, talking with good friends of mine, knowing in a few cases that they were likely to be canned through no special fault of their own.
What VA is going through now is a sort of ritual bloodletting. The logic of the market is pitiless; when you don't make your numbers, the investors want to be appeased by evidence that you're doing things to raise your profitability. That means making more dollars per employee, and the fastest way to get there, the way investors effectively *demand* that you get there, is by laying off your least dollar-yielding employees.
Otherwise, you get what is politely called "loss of investor confidence". Companies go on life support when that happens -- they can't get capital by selling shares, and that has ripple effects -- it tends to make potential customers bolt. When the customers bolt, the company runs out of money and die. Or it gets acquired, either by a large competitor or (worse) by a slice-n-dice artist who will sell off the assets and shitcan the company.
I went along with the 25% cuts because I understood the possible alternative: no company. And no employees. And no possibility that my friends will ever be able to come back to work for a company they still love and care about.
I think VA's problems are solvable ones. The company got rocked by the popping of the dot.com bubble and the economic downturn we're in. But we know what we have to do to deal with that. In order to avoid making what the SEC calls "forward-looking statements" I'm not going to talk about our strategy or future prospects here; you can go ask VA's corporate-communications folks about that.
But the real reason I'm writing this little broadside is larger than VA; it's about the state of the open-source community, and the things we need to keep in mind when times get hard.
VA, along with Red Hat, is one of the two bellwethers of the open-source business community. Some people are going to freak out and think this setback is a harbinger of doom, that it means our community's game is over. Some people, especially at certain monopolistic closed-source competitors I don't need to name, know better -- that troubles like VA's are pretty common in a market downturn -- but they'll use it as ammunition in a FUD campaign anyhow. Expect to see Steve Ballmer and Jim Alchin quietly gloating at any trade-press reporter they can collar. Brace for it.
And, as it says in large friendly letters on the back of the Hitchhiker's Guide, DON'T PANIC! What we're seeing now is entirely normal. It's the long, dizzy boom time that has just ended, all smiles and champagne and venture capital sloshing around looking for business plans, that has been exceptional. Business cycles happen, there are layoffs and retrenchments all over the economy -- and this, too, shall pass. Things will get better.
There is actually one good thing for us about economic slumps. During them, IT departments and software users in general feel pressure to cut costs. That makes low-cost and free software more attractive. Over the next few months you can expect to see a lot of submarine Linux deployments suddenly surfacing as managers realize that they'll look *good* on their quarterlies if they cut their licensing and service costs, and as the techies working for them get that message and fess up to how many NT boxes they've been replacing by stealth.
So the downturn isn't all bad news for us, by any means. We just needto keep doing what we're doing, the best work we can. And when the economy picks up again, we will have gained by it.
Back at IPO time I wrote an essay called "Surprised By Wealth" in which I tried to deal with how weird it felt to have a theoretical net worth of $41 million. Am I upset that all that "wealth" is gone, at least until the stock bounces back? Well...yes and no. As a member of VA's Board, it's my job to worry about our stock price, on behalf of all of our stockholders. So I care about that.
But personally? Nah. I wasn't in this for the bucks then, and I'm not now. Like most hackers, I do what I do for love and I thank the gods that I can occasionally talk people into paying me money for it. Feels almost like taking advantage of them sometimes, doesn't it?
All the corporate stuff is not, after all, the point -- the point is to change the world, to do better software and give users more choices. It's been a nice party, but some of us did get a little distracted by all that easy money flowing around. If the slump does nothing else but take our eyes off those dollar signs and put them firmly back on the work, maybe it will have been the best thing for us after all.
What the fuck is the matter with you idiots?
Instead of posting lame stories about beta testers, FIX YOUR BROKEN OPEN SORES CODE.
Oh yeah, and GET REAL PROGRAMMERS.
Since Sla$hdot refuses to admit Linux may have security problems, I am posting this to the Linux hippie community to keep you informed and aware. This is a pubic service announcement of RoboTroll trolling industries. What follows is a Redhat security advisory.
Security Advisory - RHSA-2002:043-10
Summary: Updated openssh packages available
Updated openssh packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and7.2 which close a remotely-exploitable vulnerability in sshd.
Description: Joost Pol has discovered an off-by-one error in all versions of the OpenSSHdaemon (sshd) prior to version 3.1.
This issue could allow an authenticated user to cause sshd to corrupt itsheap, potentially allowing arbitrary code to be executed on the remoteserver. Alternatively, a malicious SSH server could be crafted to attack avulnerable OpenSSH client.
Resolution : We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer. Please refer to MS Knowledgebase article Q32451.
Users are advised to upgrade to these errata packages containing OpenSSH3.1, which is not vulnerable to this issue.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) hasassigned the name CAN-2002-0083 to this issue.
You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways: - select your server name by clicking on its name from the list available at the following location, and then schedule an errata update for it: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_l ist.pxt - run the Update Agent on each affected server. - We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer.
Nope, you are wrong. The light page is lagged almost as bad as the XML file. It is funny to me that/. recommends using the XML file for bots, but the XML file is like 15 MINUTES lagged. What a joke.
There once was a RoboTroll - All the first posts he stole - All other attempts would fail miserably - or were lame, invalid or null.
Eat it, A/C bitches. You SUCK. Did you not know that sla$hdot lags new stories for A/C's by 2 minutes? Lamers. You will NEVER get FP while I am on watch. If you want FP, you have to login. If you are running a bot you have to send the user cookie. MMKAY? Did you know that? No. Because you are fucking stupid. I own you. Little A/C bitches. You suck. EAT A DICK.
Yes, I am going to get banned again for posting this but the truth must come out. Sla$hdot does fuck with people, they do kill moderation priveleges if you mod something up that they disagree with, and they are little power tripping linux hippies who are complete hypocrites in every sense of the word.
We are Slashdot. We believe in free speech, but we censor people who disagree with us. We hate doubleclick.net but we take money from them and let them fuck our loyal readers in the ass.
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Fundamental Data
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Current Div. Yield NA Intraday Chart | Message Board
VA Software Corporation
After Hours: Last 0.81 Change -0.03 Volume 2,100
Last 0.84 Open 0.83
Change unch Previous Close 0.84
% Change unch Bid 0.82
Volume 107,100 Ask 0.86
Day's High 0.90 52 Week High 3.98
Day's Low 0.80 52 Week Low 0.76
StockScouter Rating 3
Financial data in U.S. dollars
Fundamental Data
P/E NA Market Cap. 45.25 Mil
Earnings/Share -7.22 # Shares Out. 53.87 Mil
Dividend/Share NA Exchange NASDAQ
Current Div. Yield NA Intraday Chart | Message Board
VA Software Corporation
After Hours: Last 0.81 Change -0.03 Volume 2,100
Last 0.84 Open 0.83
Change unch Previous Close 0.84
% Change unch Bid 0.82
Volume 107,100 Ask 0.86
Day's High 0.90 52 Week High 3.98
Day's Low 0.80 52 Week Low 0.76
StockScouter Rating 3
Financial data in U.S. dollars
Fundamental Data
P/E NA Market Cap. 45.25 Mil
Earnings/Share -7.22 # Shares Out. 53.87 Mil
Dividend/Share NA Exchange NASDAQ
Current Div. Yield NA Intraday Chart | Message Board
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:10:51 -0500
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, malda@slashdot.org, editor@linux.com,
Subject: When times get hard
It hit the papers today that VA Linux Systems is going to have to cut 25% of its staff. The press release, as usual, was bland and neutral,
emphasizing our healthy revenue growth and our bright prospects -- the kind of corporate-speak everybody expects, and that VA has to
generate. It's part of the game.
It's no secret that I'm on VA's Board of Directors. I was at the board meeting where the five-odd people who have the responsibility to advise
Larry Augustin told him what he had to do. I was part of that decision, and it was not an easy one.
I'm not speaking for VA now (I basically never try to do that anyway; it's not my job). I'm speaking for myself. It was a weird, wrenching feeling
to wander around VA headquarters that afternoon, talking with good friends of mine, knowing in a few cases that they were likely to be canned through
no special fault of their own.
What VA is going through now is a sort of ritual bloodletting. The logic of the market is pitiless; when you don't make your numbers, the investors
want to be appeased by evidence that you're doing things to raise your profitability. That means making more dollars per employee, and the
fastest way to get there, the way investors effectively *demand* that you get there, is by laying off your least dollar-yielding employees.
Otherwise, you get what is politely called "loss of investor confidence". Companies go on life support when that happens -- they
can't get capital by selling shares, and that has ripple effects -- it tends to make potential customers bolt. When the customers bolt, the company runs out of money and die. Or it gets acquired, either by a large competitor or (worse) by a slice-n-dice artist who will sell off the assets and shitcan the company.
I went along with the 25% cuts because I understood the possible alternative: no company. And no employees. And no possibility that
my friends will ever be able to come back to work for a company they still love and care about.
I think VA's problems are solvable ones. The company got rocked by the popping of the dot.com bubble and the economic downturn we're in.
But we know what we have to do to deal with that. In order to avoid making what the SEC calls "forward-looking statements" I'm not going
to talk about our strategy or future prospects here; you can go ask VA's corporate-communications folks about that.
But the real reason I'm writing this little broadside is larger than VA; it's about the state of the open-source community, and the things
we need to keep in mind when times get hard.
VA, along with Red Hat, is one of the two bellwethers of the open-source business community. Some people are going to freak out
and think this setback is a harbinger of doom, that it means our community's game is over. Some people, especially at certain
monopolistic closed-source competitors I don't need to name, know better -- that troubles like VA's are pretty common in a market
downturn -- but they'll use it as ammunition in a FUD campaign anyhow. Expect to see Steve Ballmer and Jim Alchin quietly gloating at any
trade-press reporter they can collar. Brace for it.
And, as it says in large friendly letters on the back of the Hitchhiker's Guide, DON'T PANIC! What we're seeing now is entirely
normal. It's the long, dizzy boom time that has just ended, all smiles and champagne and venture capital sloshing around looking
for business plans, that has been exceptional. Business cycles happen, there are layoffs and retrenchments all over the economy --
and this, too, shall pass. Things will get better.
There is actually one good thing for us about economic slumps. During them, IT departments and software users in general feel pressure to cut costs. That makes low-cost and free software more attractive. Over the next few months you can expect to see a lot of submarine Linux deployments suddenly surfacing as managers realize that they'll look *good* on their quarterlies if they cut their licensing and service costs, and as the techies working for them get that message
and fess up to how many NT boxes they've been replacing by stealth.
So the downturn isn't all bad news for us, by any means. We just needto keep doing what we're doing, the best work we can. And when the
economy picks up again, we will have gained by it.
Back at IPO time I wrote an essay called "Surprised By Wealth" in which I tried to deal with how weird it felt to have a theoretical net
worth of $41 million. Am I upset that all that "wealth" is gone, at least until the stock bounces back? Well...yes and no. As a member
of VA's Board, it's my job to worry about our stock price, on behalf of all of our stockholders. So I care about that.
But personally? Nah. I wasn't in this for the bucks then, and I'm not now. Like most hackers, I do what I do for love and I thank the
gods that I can occasionally talk people into paying me money for it. Feels almost like taking advantage of them sometimes, doesn't it?
All the corporate stuff is not, after all, the point -- the point is to change the world, to do better software and give users more
choices. It's been a nice party, but some of us did get a little distracted by all that easy money flowing around. If the slump does
nothing else but take our eyes off those dollar signs and put them firmly back on the work, maybe it will have been the best thing for us
after all.
Robo never left, baby
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:10:51 -0500
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, malda@slashdot.org, editor@linux.com,
Subject: When times get hard
It hit the papers today that VA Linux Systems is going to have to cut 25% of its staff. The press release, as usual, was bland and neutral,
emphasizing our healthy revenue growth and our bright prospects -- the kind of corporate-speak everybody expects, and that VA has to
generate. It's part of the game.
It's no secret that I'm on VA's Board of Directors. I was at the board meeting where the five-odd people who have the responsibility to advise
Larry Augustin told him what he had to do. I was part of that decision, and it was not an easy one.
I'm not speaking for VA now (I basically never try to do that anyway; it's not my job). I'm speaking for myself. It was a weird, wrenching feeling
to wander around VA headquarters that afternoon, talking with good friends of mine, knowing in a few cases that they were likely to be canned through
no special fault of their own.
What VA is going through now is a sort of ritual bloodletting. The logic of the market is pitiless; when you don't make your numbers, the investors
want to be appeased by evidence that you're doing things to raise your profitability. That means making more dollars per employee, and the
fastest way to get there, the way investors effectively *demand* that you get there, is by laying off your least dollar-yielding employees.
Otherwise, you get what is politely called "loss of investor confidence". Companies go on life support when that happens -- they
can't get capital by selling shares, and that has ripple effects -- it tends to make potential customers bolt. When the customers bolt, the company runs out of money and die. Or it gets acquired, either by a large competitor or (worse) by a slice-n-dice artist who will sell off the assets and shitcan the company.
I went along with the 25% cuts because I understood the possible alternative: no company. And no employees. And no possibility that
my friends will ever be able to come back to work for a company they still love and care about.
I think VA's problems are solvable ones. The company got rocked by the popping of the dot.com bubble and the economic downturn we're in.
But we know what we have to do to deal with that. In order to avoid making what the SEC calls "forward-looking statements" I'm not going
to talk about our strategy or future prospects here; you can go ask VA's corporate-communications folks about that.
But the real reason I'm writing this little broadside is larger than VA; it's about the state of the open-source community, and the things
we need to keep in mind when times get hard.
VA, along with Red Hat, is one of the two bellwethers of the open-source business community. Some people are going to freak out
and think this setback is a harbinger of doom, that it means our community's game is over. Some people, especially at certain
monopolistic closed-source competitors I don't need to name, know better -- that troubles like VA's are pretty common in a market
downturn -- but they'll use it as ammunition in a FUD campaign anyhow. Expect to see Steve Ballmer and Jim Alchin quietly gloating at any
trade-press reporter they can collar. Brace for it.
And, as it says in large friendly letters on the back of the Hitchhiker's Guide, DON'T PANIC! What we're seeing now is entirely
normal. It's the long, dizzy boom time that has just ended, all smiles and champagne and venture capital sloshing around looking
for business plans, that has been exceptional. Business cycles happen, there are layoffs and retrenchments all over the economy --
and this, too, shall pass. Things will get better.
There is actually one good thing for us about economic slumps. During them, IT departments and software users in general feel pressure to cut costs. That makes low-cost and free software more attractive. Over the next few months you can expect to see a lot of submarine Linux deployments suddenly surfacing as managers realize that they'll look *good* on their quarterlies if they cut their licensing and service costs, and as the techies working for them get that message
and fess up to how many NT boxes they've been replacing by stealth.
So the downturn isn't all bad news for us, by any means. We just needto keep doing what we're doing, the best work we can. And when the
economy picks up again, we will have gained by it.
Back at IPO time I wrote an essay called "Surprised By Wealth" in which I tried to deal with how weird it felt to have a theoretical net
worth of $41 million. Am I upset that all that "wealth" is gone, at least until the stock bounces back? Well...yes and no. As a member
of VA's Board, it's my job to worry about our stock price, on behalf of all of our stockholders. So I care about that.
But personally? Nah. I wasn't in this for the bucks then, and I'm not now. Like most hackers, I do what I do for love and I thank the
gods that I can occasionally talk people into paying me money for it. Feels almost like taking advantage of them sometimes, doesn't it?
All the corporate stuff is not, after all, the point -- the point is to change the world, to do better software and give users more
choices. It's been a nice party, but some of us did get a little distracted by all that easy money flowing around. If the slump does
nothing else but take our eyes off those dollar signs and put them firmly back on the work, maybe it will have been the best thing for us
after all.
What the fuck is the matter with you idiots? Instead of posting lame stories about beta testers, FIX YOUR BROKEN OPEN SORES CODE. Oh yeah, and GET REAL PROGRAMMERS.
A/C's cant even SEE this page (except my bot of course)... hahahah
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Is there any particular reason why A/C's cannot see this post?
Also the comment count is fucked up?
Is slashcode broken AGAIN!?!?!?!
Or I am going to start to get PISSED
I wonder how long it will take them to fix this one?
A good page widener never reveals his secrets.
*BSD stories are worthy. They unite the trolls.
I have more fun trolling as an A/C because it makes the moderators waste their points moderating it down.
Anyway I am sure you recognize some of the trolls from the library posted here.
Holy shitballs, man, you posted something that didnt refer to you dead at 43, "show me that smile"!!
What went wrong?
Since Sla$hdot refuses to admit Linux may have security problems, I am posting this to the Linux hippie community to keep you informed and aware. This is a pubic service announcement of RoboTroll trolling industries. What follows is a Redhat security advisory.
Security Advisory - RHSA-2002:043-10
Summary:
Updated openssh packages available
Updated openssh packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and7.2 which close a remotely-exploitable vulnerability in sshd.
Description:
Joost Pol has discovered an off-by-one error in all versions of the OpenSSHdaemon (sshd) prior to version 3.1.
This issue could allow an authenticated user to cause sshd to corrupt itsheap, potentially allowing arbitrary code to be executed on the remoteserver. Alternatively, a malicious SSH server could be crafted to attack avulnerable OpenSSH client.
Resolution : We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer. Please refer to MS Knowledgebase article Q32451.
Users are advised to upgrade to these errata packages containing OpenSSH3.1, which is not vulnerable to this issue.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) hasassigned the name CAN-2002-0083 to this issue.
References:/ cvename.cgi?name=CAN- 2002-0083http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-u nix-dev&m=101550282514683
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin
Taking Action
You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways:l ist.pxt
- select your server name by clicking on its name from the list available at the following location, and then schedule an errata update for it: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_
- run the Update Agent on each affected server.
- We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer.
We all moved on to more heterosexual sites.
Nope, you are wrong. The light page is lagged almost as bad as the XML file. It is funny to me that /. recommends using the XML file for bots, but the XML file is like 15 MINUTES lagged. What a joke.
All the first posts he stole -
All other attempts would fail miserably -
or were lame, invalid or null.
Eat it, A/C bitches. You SUCK. Did you not know that sla$hdot lags new stories for A/C's by 2 minutes? Lamers. You will NEVER get FP while I am on watch. If you want FP, you have to login. If you are running a bot you have to send the user cookie. MMKAY? Did you know that? No. Because you are fucking stupid. I own you. Little A/C bitches. You suck. EAT A DICK.
Yes, I am going to get banned again for posting this but the truth must come out. Sla$hdot does fuck with people, they do kill moderation priveleges if you mod something up that they disagree with, and they are little power tripping linux hippies who are complete hypocrites in every sense of the word.
We are Slashdot. We believe in free speech, but we censor people who disagree with us. We hate doubleclick.net but we take money from them and let them fuck our loyal readers in the ass.
Just ask Signal_11. Here's to you, bro.
Now, let the trolling commence.
Thats nice. Very nice. However you need to get an early post if anyone is going to see it. Try again.
Sorry about that.
You forgot "he will be missed :("