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Slashdot joins the ad-free melee
News "News for Nerds" Web site Slashdot.org has joined the dark side, lining up with leagues of other Net publishers to start selling larger, more imposing advertisements and placing a premium on commercial-free pages.
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
Patent system needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
News A 'Slashdot for prior art' should be the goal," the report said. A public policy group has called on the US patent office to make more use of the Internet when searching for prior art. The Committee for Economic Development (CED), which includes...
[April 21, 2006, 13:20]
Patent system needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
Talkback Vendor indepedant interoperability is more important then most current decision makers currently realize. As such, once again, it can be pointed out that liability at the decision making level is significantly lacking.
[April 21, 2006, 23:39]
Patent system needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
Talkback Been there. Done that. How about more sensible patent law instead? Seriously, that idea has been tried several times. BountyQuest is one such project that comes to mind. However, the problem is not finding the prior art.
[April 24, 2006, 18:43]
How to score SCO's legal games
Talkback Groklaw reminds me of a VERY young slashdot: intelligent discussion with civilized disagreement and a healthy respect for others opinions. Of course, this was a slashdot long ago and far away. PJ has done a great job, considering she's had to move...
[November 20, 2003, 22:03]
Slashdash
Downloads Slashdash is the perfect dashboard widget for the Slashdot-obsessed Apple toting geek. Simply click the Slashdash icon in your widget tray, and you will have a small Slashdot-themed widget window that will update every 30 minutes automatically.
[June 24, 2005, 22:49]
John Warnock: Adobe's CEO talks to ZDNet, Part II
News Warnock isn't a regular visitor to Slashdot.org (popular site for Linux users and open source supporters) but in March Adobe (with Sun) put up a total of $90,000 in bounties for independent developers to come up with specific implementations for...
[July 23, 1999, 14:08]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback And then read this comment: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl? sid=128797&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=109&tid=155&tid=123&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=10746498 or every comment at http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?
[November 10, 2004, 8:32]
Ouch! TurboLinux hit with layoffs
News TurboLinux confirmed the layoffs, first reported by the open-source enthusiast site Slashdot. The main reason we're doing (layoffs) is just market realities," said Johnston in the Slashdot article. One of the four major Linux distributors...
[June 1, 2000, 8:46]
Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
Talkback http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl? Register.uk's publishing Symantec's adware http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl? Symantec and Microsoft cannot be trusted. Much of what appears to be articles are really written by P.R.companies like Waggener Edstrom.
[September 21, 2005, 12:03]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Mr Martin Ryan, before claiming the US and Japan have a "healty" software industry, please take a look at all the lawsuits involving software patants, this being one of the latest: http://www.pat-rights.com/nsD03_01_2005_T1235.htm more on this is...
[March 8, 2005, 8:02]
McBride denied telephone service
News McBride's home phone has been crippled by incoming calls since Sunday, when the previously unlisted number and his home address were posted on popular technology Web site Slashdot. One reader of Slashdot, who claimed to have called the number...
[February 4, 2004, 7:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The monstrous hive-mind called Slashdot.org caught wind of this story, and as is its wont went looking for some exotic Web site on the island to find out more. This could be the first time Slashdot has knocked an entire nation off the Net, and...
[June 27, 2003, 9:57]
When programmers can write no more
News The only way to cure programmers block is a direct infusion of Skittles and Mountain Dew intravenously, keeping the brain in an alert and creative state," said one Slashdot poster. When Linux enthusiast site Slashdot earlier this week conducted a...
[August 4, 2000, 15:22]
Linux not MS' only open-source target
News A number of posters on the Linux news site slashdot.org expressed concern that Microsoft might fragment the Perl community by releasing a version of the language to include Windows-specific extensions.
[June 3, 1999, 8:17]
Slash builds free portals
News Slash: A Slashdot-like automated storytelling home page Powazek has a chapter on Slash that serves as a great overview of its features from the user's perspective, including an interview with the creator of Slashdot, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda.
[October 3, 2002, 14:06]
Microsoft in the hot seat in new Net flap
News The newest blow up occurred this week after Microsoft notified officials at the Linux-enthusiast site Slashdot, demanding the removal of certain postings. The letter, which was subsequently published on the Web site, was interpreted by Slashdot as...
[May 12, 2000, 9:02]
GNOME 2.12 improves hardware integration
News A number of GNOME users praised the addition of more user-friendly hardware integration, in response to a recent Slashdot article about GNOME 2.12. GNOME is almost complete now, most of the interface work is done, and now all that's left are those...
[September 8, 2005, 17:55]
US Report: Infighting within the Linux family
News This is a huge scam," commented one user on slashdot.org, a Web site frequented by Linux developers. It seems to me there are quite a few of these 'I know what's best for Linux; send me some money I'll tell you' type of organisations popping up...
[August 19, 1998, 14:17]
