Then they are not only biased but also falsely advertising. It should be
News for open source nerds and stuff that matters only to a biased segment of the
computer world
.. slashdot, biased?
Uhhh... no offense Michael, but duh!
The denizens of slashdot could care less about cold fusion -- and if they
think about it at all, it's probably with disdain. The majority of them are
either linux sysadmins and/or programmers of free open source software.
That's their Thing.
Cold Fusion is neither free nor open source... and while the community has
made some big strides towards creating open source libraries for programmers
with awesome sites like cflib.org, etc... it's still nothing compared to
what one finds in the world of, say, PHP or Perl.
It's also worth remembering that the folks on Slashdot are pretty seriously
skewed towards the computer science end of the programming world. Those
folks, for better or not, are the uber geeks. Cold fusion, while there are
things I love about it, has a reputation as kind of a toy language for
graphic designers. (Now, we could get into a long debate as to whether that
reputation is deserved or not... but anyway...)
The only time I can think of them covering Macromedia at all was when they
were sued and counter-sued by Adobe... and that was an intellectual property
thing.
My point here (and there is one) is that you should give up courting
Slashdot and shouldn't be disappointed if they don't cover issues of
interest specifically to the CF community. It's just not on their radar.
They don't cover ASP, either, for what it's worth.
-- jon
-Original Message-
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 1:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: (OT) Slashdot bais
Slashdot.org is one of those sites that many of us go to in our daily review
of internet information. Their only problem is that they are quite
anti-ColdFusion. I've sent them numerous articles on language issues,
releases, you name it and not one has ever been posted.
http://www.fusionauthority.com/Article.cfm?ArticleID=1605
They also never list ColdFusion as a language when doing any report or
survey
and their bias has become reflected in the views of their readers.
A perfect example is this thread:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/20/0124243
No where is ColdFusion mentioned even though there are many more CF sites
for
developers than there are for PHP (for example). What I'd like for you to do
is get on this thread and post to it. Complain, explain and do what you can
to
get the good name of CF out there.
On the other hand, this site does list ColdFusion and I feel is an excelent
site for people who want to see a feature of some languages side by side.
http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/c.html#Cold-Fusion
Just check out the asp example for a perfect reason as to why we use CF. :)
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