August 5, 2008 1:07 PM PDT
LinuxWorld showing its true colors?
I had to laugh when this error came up today when accessing LinuxWorld's website:
www.LinuxWorldExpo.com:
Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a138f'
'brandGlobalXML.selectSingleNode(...)' is null or not an object
/live/template1.asp, line 42
To be fair, it's just a conference company that organizes a wide range of conferences, not all of them focused on open source. Indeed, IDG also runs (or ran) the website for OSBC and ran it on a Windows infrastructure, too.
In both cases, it's still mildly ironic to see IDG making money with open source...but paying money to Microsoft.
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Level3 lusers :(
- by walter_v August 6, 2008 12:30 AM PDT
- I occasionally revisit IDG events/websites, but in general, they seem so uninspired compared to the increasingly wide variety of alternatives out there. For Linux, OSCON's quality of both content and prospective customers is so much higher than LinuxWorld.
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(4 Comments)This year I skipped LinuxWorld altogether, and will go to a couple new events I haven't tried yet.
On the web, IDG websites really try to squeeze every past page view with extra ads ands breaks. Plus their writers just don't seem to be really interested or involved in the material.
I think in a post-internet world, only the passionate survive, with so much content and event stuff to choose from. You can see IDG (and their peers, don't mean to pick only on them) wither away a bit more each year.