On OSNews I’ve also posted a few dogs of stories on the front page, but you won’t see me removing them. Once it’s up, it’s up (except when it’s a dupe).

I disagree , its demeaning to the meaning of that word and its insulting for everyone else because the association gets made with killers and is targeted at the community entirely , GNU/Linux user are really pigheaded ( or cow headed )and sometime very obnoxious ( I know I am )( probably why the sigh of GNU is a big wildebeest ) we are very vocal in our opinion and most of the time run against the majority just because its contrary to our values and idea , but we are not killers.

We live in a time where there exist real zealot and you don’t have to go look very far to see some example of it and I am sorry but GNU/Linux user are not killer and they do not kill as in killing for real , not stupid blocking by immature scared cowards who frankly don’t represent what GNU/Linux is about , its a real problem and should not be buried because it sheds a bad light on your distro of the moment.

What can I say , I always think that one of the biggest problem is how things are perceived and done , Red Hat is a 3 billion USD company and they don’t have offer like Apple and Dell does do for the desktop I find that really really sad , ( if they want to do it on the cheap just do a trade stock swap with Gateway witch is 1 billion ) but its all profit driven this days so we have to live with a lot of disappointments.

We will have to see to where it really leads maybe its the start of the end of some major projects and maybe the death of GNU/Linux on the desktop , but maybe people will realize that paying Novell , Red Hat and Mandriva for general desktop solution is not the right way to get something that is on the same level as Apple Mac OS X integration to there hardware. I cant say That I was impressed by any offer from anyone else either even Linuxcertified and Linspire witch I thought would offer better version this turn around have disappointed me , only system76.com is on the right track or at least they put up a good front.

What can I say , you got a real good point but personally its sad that some cowards tried to bury it , but I think just presenting the news to other News site is going to help more then discussing how it was blocked on Digg and how its not democracy when it never really was , getting to vote on things dont make it a true democracy , you needs right too.

Sorry I talk too much.

This is because it got off the front page too quickly. The story had the necessary votes to go to the front page, which is about 35 votes. From then on, it gets voted much quicker, but it got off before it got more votes than that.

>Digg is not democracy

Digg is described as a democracy within its own ecosystem, yes.

>There are no Linux zealot , if there was , you guys who feel they exist would be dead for just disagreeing with them

They are doing their part to be virtually dead, I can assure you of that (some even ask people to boycott osnews). Zealotry is a spot on word for what some people are.

>they are not dependent on those company for survival due to there independence

Especially Gnome is depending A LOT of its development speed on companies. And don’t forget that all of its servers and bandwidth are paid by Red Hat still.

>there is no guarantee everyone else will agree with you.

There is one thing to not agree with an article, and another to ABUSE THE (digg) SYSTEM in order to prevent a bad image for your favorite OS getting out.

Personally, I think they should look into a system like Blinklist has where as soon as something is ‘blinked’ it goes to the front of the line. That way you wouldn’t have things with 15 diggs sitting somewhere on page 24 of upcoming.

BTW- the article made Slashdot today.

There are no Linux zealot , if there was , you guys who feel they exist would be dead for just disagreeing with them , its one of the worst word in the human nature that exist only below Nazis. It would be really pleasant if you stopped using that word , its does not add anything to your comment , its false and to the contrary it completely diminish the point ( valid or not ) that you are trying to make.

I agree that things are slowing down from the Novell and Red Hat angle on the general desktop , but Red Hat and Novell never where about the general desktop , Mandriva took itself out by bad management so its a third blow , but then the GNU/Linux desktop community is not made up of only those 3 company , KDE and GNOME are also project who have fundings on there own , they are not dependent on those company for survival due to there independence. One contributor you also forget was caldera who got taken out byt its own SCO they where a big contributor to KDE early days.

Thom made is opinion available and it was not the popular one on Diggs its also full of incomplete data , but he was able to make it known , that’s also part of democracy , there is no guarantee everyone else will agree with you.

Voting isn’t the only situation where this happens: look at all the cases where people complain about unemployment but continue buying goods from distant countries when locally made goods would support the local economy.

The only problem I have with Digg itself is that they should not allow stories to get buried after they have been promoted to the front page. They could “mark” them as inaccurate (like they currently do), but not remove them. Retracting a story is a big deal for news outlets.

All the rest of the blame goes to the Linux zealots, not to Digg.