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Well, I've seen 2 new fans. Welcome. I usually don't write in here too much.

I would be curious as to what inspires people to add me to their friends list. Anyone want to reply?

Just submitted a story on SCO being forced to show infringing code. Here's the text of the submission:

According to eWeek, as well as other sources, SCO is going to be compelled by the court to show the code that they claim to be infringing. They also have to document where they distributed code, which could end the speculation that SCO themselves put the disputed code into the kernel.

Could this be my second submission accepted? Stay tuned.

Note: nope

Ok, I just noticed that the friend/fan/foe/freak icons just became smiley faces. This, in and of itself, is a small, yet interesting change. Unfortunately, there never seems to be any kind of announcement as to what changes on the backend of Slashdot.

My proposal is this; there exists a Slashdot topic. Why can't we have a once a week/month/quarter/something discussion under that topic where Taco and crew could post new features, scheduled outages, and offer users a chance to discuss the site workings without being offtopic? Those who aren't interested could ignore the topic, just like every other topic on /.

OK, I'm now totally fucking confused. My article was rejected, yet, it showed up in combination with another article (kind of like a slashback. Are the editors really on this much crack?

MS has resorted to talking smack about their own products in order to get people to upgrade. They also pulled support for Office 97. Seems like this is a prime example of the power of open-source software, in that, you should always be able to use the version of software that you want to use, and find someone to support it.

Update: Well, it took almost 7 hours for the editors to decide this one wasn't worth posting. Oh well.