Planet Geek!: Slashdot promotes windows!
Dec. 9th, 2006 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Ads are ads are ads. They generate revenue, they are the lifeblood of many websites. On most days, I can tolerate them.
But when a website I've been using for a decade, a site that is truly the core of much of the Linux community, for all its faults, supports an ad so blatantly sensationalistic, with no bylines, no disclaimers, and in fact nothing to say this IS in fact an ad, I find my bile rising.
This ad appeared on this mornings reload of Slashdot.org. It ran big bold headlines "LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE CHOOSES WINDOWS OVER LINUX FOR RELIABILITY!" and stopped at the frame shown here. The implication is "Windows is more reliable than Linux in server environments. You should run Windows Server 2003 if you want to succeed."
This really isn't the place to go into whether Windows or Linux is more appropriate in the data center - that's been hashed, rehashed, and argued ad nauseum. What bothers me is seeing this sort of IN YOUR FACE advertising on a site that really is against all that this ad represents - the blind marching toward the All Savior of Microsoft, only they can run our data center! Only they can run stable servers!
Ads are ads, as I said. But Slashdot, shouldn't this bother you, even a smidgen?
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Category: Geekitude
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But when a website I've been using for a decade, a site that is truly the core of much of the Linux community, for all its faults, supports an ad so blatantly sensationalistic, with no bylines, no disclaimers, and in fact nothing to say this IS in fact an ad, I find my bile rising.
This ad appeared on this mornings reload of Slashdot.org. It ran big bold headlines "LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE CHOOSES WINDOWS OVER LINUX FOR RELIABILITY!" and stopped at the frame shown here. The implication is "Windows is more reliable than Linux in server environments. You should run Windows Server 2003 if you want to succeed."
This really isn't the place to go into whether Windows or Linux is more appropriate in the data center - that's been hashed, rehashed, and argued ad nauseum. What bothers me is seeing this sort of IN YOUR FACE advertising on a site that really is against all that this ad represents - the blind marching toward the All Savior of Microsoft, only they can run our data center! Only they can run stable servers!
Ads are ads, as I said. But Slashdot, shouldn't this bother you, even a smidgen?
Cloned from: Planet Geek!
Category: Geekitude
Full article & comments: Link (Comment ticker:
