And what should Slashdot do to protect itself against bogus "news"? A recent thread on the FreeBSD advocacy list suggested flooding Slashdot with BSD press releases in the hopes that they would get on Roblimos nerves and force him to post them as "News" just to shut up the malcontents. Isn't that dishonest?
That HAPPENS to be Roblimo's suggestion. But you left that little tidbit out didn't you?
Before I go further let me assure you that my post was not meant to be hostile. I was bringing to attention the fact that the FreeBSDCon story was apparantly being rejected simply because it was BSD, and it seemed odd considering what's to come.
Slashdot was founded as a site for Geek news. Linux is predominant because that's what Rob uses, and it's his site. Still, BSD has it's place here. Slashdot apparantly thinks so too, or the soon to be announced new section wouldn't be forthcoming. Surely you saw reference to that while you were in the -Advocacy archive eh?
I wouldn't expect to see Linux stories on BSD sites(Daemonnews [daemonnews.org], FreeBSDRocks [freebsdrocks.com], FreeBSDZine [freebsdzine.org], FreeBSD Advocacy [tesserae.com], etc) any more than I would see BSD stories on sites such as Linux.com.
There was a FreeBSDCon story on Slashdot when it was first announced. It's NOT too much to ask to follow up on that when a full schedule of events is released.
When participants tried to register for the FreeBSD event, the hotel manager didn't know what the heck they were referring to.
Funny, I had no trouble whatsoever.
The behavior of WC CDROM is exemplary. They are the primary financial backer of the FreeBSD Project, and there's nothing shady about them booking the room. All such Conferences have Sponsers, and you see their names all over them. Why would this be any different, and why should they try to conceal their identity?
And no one who reads your comments will go read the archives for themselves. A Shame.
Have you ever worked for Microsoft? Maybe in Marketing?
Re:Slashdot is NOT a BSD advocacy site, Understand (Score:2)
That HAPPENS to be Roblimo's suggestion. But you left that little tidbit out didn't you?
Before I go further let me assure you that my post was not meant to be hostile. I was bringing to attention the fact that the FreeBSDCon story was apparantly being rejected simply because it was BSD, and it seemed odd considering what's to come.
Slashdot was founded as a site for Geek news. Linux is predominant because that's what Rob uses, and it's his site. Still, BSD has it's place here. Slashdot apparantly thinks so too, or the soon to be announced new section wouldn't be forthcoming. Surely you saw reference to that while you were in the -Advocacy archive eh?
I wouldn't expect to see Linux stories on BSD sites(Daemonnews [daemonnews.org], FreeBSDRocks [freebsdrocks.com], FreeBSDZine [freebsdzine.org], FreeBSD Advocacy [tesserae.com], etc) any more than I would see BSD stories on sites such as Linux.com.
There was a FreeBSDCon story on Slashdot when it was first announced. It's NOT too much to ask to follow up on that when a full schedule of events is released.
When participants tried to register for the FreeBSD event, the hotel manager didn't know what the heck they were referring to.
Funny, I had no trouble whatsoever.
The behavior of WC CDROM is exemplary. They are the primary financial backer of the FreeBSD Project, and there's nothing shady about them booking the room. All such Conferences have Sponsers, and you see their names all over them. Why would this be any different, and why should they try to conceal their identity?
And no one who reads your comments will go read the archives for themselves. A Shame.
Have you ever worked for Microsoft? Maybe in Marketing?
- Avid Linux User and BSD Advocate.