On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:15:54AM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 4/10/07, Druid
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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org