Cooking the books

ziggy on 2002-06-10T17:40:31

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[...] After reading this article about the limitations of Open Source, I am lefting wondering, "what's the point of this story if not just to get linked on Slashdot and drive traffic to ZDNET?"
I haven't read the article in question, but the comment outlines a rather questionable practice: continally posting flamebait and waiting to get slashdotted to boost pageviews. I'm surprised this business model didn't appear three years ago. Then again, perhaps all of the dotcoms that went out of business did so because they didn't think of this yet. :-)