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Raw Titles (TechNewsWorld)Raw Titles (TechNewsWorld)Posted Jun 26, 2007 13:34 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: Shared Software? (TechNewsWorld) by eru Parent article: Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave (TechNewsWorld) Our editor is averse to rewording titles. The title of this LWN article is precisely that of the TechNewsWorld article, barring the addition of the ``(TechNewsWorld)'' at the end. Every time it links to an article, LWN uses a title effectively identical to that of the article, even though more than once it has been, ahem, taken to task for misleading wording. If I may be allowed to rearrange your comment a bit :-) B. The actual wording of the title may have been by the editor.
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Title munging (TechNewsWorld) Posted Jun 26, 2007 13:59 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] Interestingly, the title of this comment's predecessor (and, I expect, this one) have ``(TechNewsWorld)'' appended, even though I changed the title for my comment.I certainly don't remember this being the case in the past (e.g., http://lwn.net/Articles/176631/). Jon, did you change LWN's code to automatically add the source to titles, and it's a bit overenthusiastic?
Title munging Posted Jun 26, 2007 19:53 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] If you try make another reply, you will find that "(TechNewsWorld)" stands after a newline. It's hard to deal with newlines in single-line entry boxes, since there is no indication that they are present. They can be found by moving the cursor beyond the apparent line end.As for the article, I did read it, and I specifically checked that "shared software" wasn't mentioned anywhere except the title. However, the title makes it seem that "shared software" comes from Mark Shuttleworth. He does use "open sources" once, and so does the interviewer. Anyway, it's remarkable that a different term was used in the title, soon after OSI announced its intention to enforce its definition of Open Source.
Title munging (TechNewsWorld) Posted Jun 27, 2007 3:23 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] No, I've done nothing to try to change the titles others choose - not even hiding parts behind a newline. Not sure why people are seeing that. Will look into it - after I've recovered from my day in airline hell and given my OLS talk...
Title munging (TechNewsWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2007 5:25 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] You might consider adding a notation like [sic] to flag a misleading title.
Raw Titles (TechNewsWorld) Posted Jun 26, 2007 13:59 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] I don't think he talked about OUR lovely editor.
Oops---wrong editor (TechNewsWorld) Posted Jun 26, 2007 14:02 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] My apologies, eru, I see you meant their editor, not ours. Pardon my shortsightedness.
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