[CLUE-Talk] Linux Journal: RC Awards

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:23:16 -0600
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> This sounds like it's more of a problem of a bad choice of site name on 
> someone's part than something any poll for "Favorite Linux Site" is 
> going to "fix".

Linux Journal claims to be part of the community. What their parent, SSC
Publications, did was not a communitarian thing. This seems to me to be a
way to let them know that, even if it is a bit subtle.

> I don't know the history but why did they choose the same name as 
> someone else's commercial venture in the first place?  Seems rather 
> irresponsible if linuxgazette.com was there first.

The whole story: http://linuxgazette.net/issue97/moen.html

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