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Old 12-17-2014, 07:45 AM   #1
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In the News

Did I miss this being posted here?

Friday, July 25, 2014
Patrick Won O'Reilly Open Source Awards 2014
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Slackware founder and maintainer, Patrick Volkerding has won O'Reilly
Open Source Awards - OSCON 2014
In other News: Dobb's leaves us "Farewell, Dr. Dobb's"
Last edited by Xsane; 12-17-2014 at 01:24 PM. Reason: Fixed link, thanks to a4z
 
Old 12-17-2014, 08:17 AM   #2
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your link is somehow wrong , should be
http://slackblogs.blogspot.de/2014/0...ce-awards.html
 
Old 12-17-2014, 08:44 AM   #3
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Did I miss this being posted here?

Friday, July 25, 2014
Patrick Won O'Reilly Open Source Awards 2014


In other News: Dobb's leaves us "Farewell, Dr. Dobb's"
Old news but I didn't know about it. Thanks for sharing.
 
Old 12-17-2014, 02:39 PM   #4
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Originaly, it should be .com, but apparently it was replicated to many country-spesific domains owned by Google
 
Old 12-17-2014, 06:47 PM   #5
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Cool! Congratulations, Pat. Very well earned.
 
Old 12-17-2014, 09:24 PM   #6
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That's cool. I don't know if it was posted before, but I didn't see it.
 
Old 12-17-2014, 11:06 PM   #7
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing, man. I did not know our BDFL received this well deserved honour.
 
Old 12-18-2014, 05:08 AM   #8
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I remember seeing that, I follow Willy's blog in my feed reader.
 
Old 12-18-2014, 05:22 AM   #9
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Sad news about Dr.Dobbs. Tech sites worth visiting are becoming increasingly rare with every passing year.
 
Old 12-18-2014, 09:49 AM   #10
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Bestowing the O'Reilly Open Source Award to Mr Volkerding is a bit like giving the Hans Solo award to the Rebel Alliance.
 
  


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