If you had LWN's source code, you could set up a site for some different sort of news. This is actually entirely plausible; Groklaw runs the same site source that Slashdot originally developed.
Posted Jul 10, 2009 17:06 UTC (Fri) by markhb (guest, #1003)
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I believe that's incorrect. Groklaw, IIRC, ran on Radiolog or something like that in its early days, and it's been on Geeklog since 2003. I don't believe they've ever run Slash.
Groklaw on Slash?
Posted Jul 10, 2009 17:32 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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I'm pretty sure there was discussion about moving it to Slash when it was leaving Radiolog, since PJ had previously been a frequent commenter on Slashdot before having her own site and was therefore used to it. I guess I missed the actual move being something different when it happened, and always thought it was to Slash. (Of course, the discussion of what the move should be was before the move, and therefore not in the archives, which start immediately after the move, as far as I can tell.)