On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:15:54AM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 4/10/07, Druid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >right, novell marketing folks? Can you read this? If you can, remind > >next time to not PAY the people that are trying to bring down your > >company, product and your salary > > 2 inaccuracies here: > > 1)really that is not how marketing works. You notice that Microsoft > brings adverts to Linux-focused publications. Why? Because advertising > is about "eyeballs" and name recognition. > > 2)"Slashdot" is NOT trying to "bring down Novell". How siully. There > are some Slashdot submitters/editors that have this bias, yes. But, I > look at Slashdot each day (I find it a convenient and sometimes > interesting sweep of thing going on) and I must say that I have also > seen some Suse-positive posts and plenty of positive comments to even > the posts that are negative. "Slashdot" is a business ..."they" as an > entity could care less about the fate of Suse. > > Finally, I agree that the tone of the slashdot post was ridiculous. > The title "Open Suse hobbled by Microsoft patent agreement" or some > such thing ... plain absurd. Just wrong. The poster (who may have had > an agenda, who knows) failed to do even a tiny bit of looking into the > thing.
Slashdot is in for 1 thing, just like any other journal, publicity. So any controversial topic they can get their hands on is Good News for them. ;) Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
