klik://wesnoth-latest [LWN.net]

klik://wesnoth-latest

Posted Oct 6, 2005 15:25 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104)
In reply to: klik://wesnoth-latest by lovelace
Parent article: The Battle for Wesnoth hits 1.0

I see references to Klik in comments to several stories. It looks like astroturfing to me. If appearance of e.g. Fedoda packages for particular software is not newsworthy, why is it for Klik? Maybe you could contribute a good lengthy article about Klik instead of sticking a short comment to every story?

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Posted Oct 6, 2005 19:15 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] (1 responses)

It's notable, in part because it isn't the same as a Fedora package. Klik packages are user runnable files that is fairly distribution independant, which makes it very easy to get to the software without a) building and installing it yourself, or b) waiting for your distro to package it for your system. Thus for new stuff coming out, klik packages represent a nice, quick and easy way to try new software.

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Posted Oct 6, 2005 22:11 UTC (Thu) by piman (guest, #8957) [Link]

> b) waiting for your distro to package it for your system.

Except Klik packages are built out of Debian packages. So while you might not have to wait for *your* distribution to package it, you could also just be running Debian.

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Posted Oct 6, 2005 19:41 UTC (Thu) by lovelace (guest, #278) [Link] (1 responses)

I have absolutely nothing to do with klik and, in fact, I've never actually used klik myself. I just happened to see that article on Wesnoth and klik just yesterday and thought it would be a good example of how fast open source moves, especially since it was relevant to the article.

Your allegations of "astroturfing" are completely and utterly unfounded.

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Posted Oct 7, 2005 0:18 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

Your allegations of "astroturfing" are completely and utterly unfounded.

Your implication that there were allegations of astroturfing is what is unfounded. That comment ("this looks like ...") just states the author's impression. As such, it invites contradiction by a more knowledgeable person, which you thankfully supplied.