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Posted Sep 20, 2007 12:49 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
Parent article: The case of the unwelcome attribution

No one seems to notice (and I've been buying OpenBSD releases since 3.8 for minor mucking about) the correlation between OpenBSD releases and these flamewars...


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Posted Sep 20, 2007 16:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

What, you're saying this is a really peculiar form of `advertising by appearing like nasty unpleasant people', on the `all publicity is good publicity' principle?

(maybe someone should ask MediaDefender's MD if he agrees with this aphorism. He's certainly had a lot of, um, unexpected publicity recently.)

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