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For Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site, the Ksplice blog post was an example of "what can go wrong when you try to do some 'blog whoring' -- the common name for the practice of 'pimping' your blog to attract attention to your company's product." Ksp...

Whether the FSF has helped or harmed Linux uptake is the real issue, asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "The GPL -- which is really what we're talking about here -- has made a huge difference," she explained. "Companies had a choice...

The "quadruple productivity" claim, however, "is one of those statistics from the '87 percent of all statistics are made up -- including this one' class," charged Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I won't say where it came from, except that I suspect Mr. Price pulled it from somewhere that rhymes with the last word of [my] previous sentence."

Rather than "Should open source be an enemy of the state?" it would make more sense to ask, "Should closed source be an enemy of the state?" asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "That the question is being asked at all speaks more abo...

On the other hand, if Ubuntu wanted companies to take it seriously, it should never have made its "prime product offering look like the artwork from a pumpkin pie box," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "It's not just ugly -- it's fugly-ugly. Even in Soviet Russia." ...

"Windows fixes are Microsoft's sole responsibility, both legally and ethically," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. If Microsoft can't handle the job, there are other solutions, she suggested:...

"It's good to see the courts giving recognition not just to the validity of the GPL, but to the economic value of the code it protects," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. Money ≠ Value? ...

Still, "Microsoft has never successfully proven any patent infringement against Linux," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "That should say it all. It's not like Microsoft isn't an expert on patent infringement -- they've certainly been ...

Indeed, "the article fails to make any mention of the top real-life causes of security failures, which are all management failures," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site For example: "Feature bloat; not devoting enough resources to a proj...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a different view The bloggers who noted that Mandriva, Red Hat/Fedora and Suse/OpenSUSE were the only ones with a consistently good showing "pretty much nailed it," Hudson told LinuxInsider. "Those three...

On the other hand, "my first thought was, 'Isn't that just a fancy way to get your Darwin Award without actually killing yourself?'" quipped Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I don't know, maybe I'm (more) different than I thought I was, bu...

"The JesusPad doesn't fit in my purse, and I'd rather carry around a purse and a closed laptop instead of a purse and a protective carrying case for a product that is missing a lot of basic features," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.

"A quick search of the wiki at developer.symbian.org shows that the developer toolkit, including the x86 phone emulator, is Windows-only," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. Ignoring that for a moment, however, "there's still the probl...

"Poor Carla," began Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site "The problem with motherboards is always the same," Hudson told LinuxInsider. "Either it works fine for a month or two and then dies, or it works great until the power supply fries it. Then it'...

Kennedy "doesn't get it," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Then again, once a Microsoft shill, always a Microsoft shill ..." The arguments Kennedy presents "don't make any sense," Hudson told LinuxInsider.

"The first rule about being a guru -- in anything -- is that you do not talk about being a guru," began Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "It is a moniker that other people use to refer to you." That said, "a linux 'guru' is someone who, upon...

"The price is awful," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "That's (US)$500, and you still need a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc, so throw in another $150 for a 'desktop' with terrible performance." 'This Will Go Nowhere Fast'...

"On the whole, you don't have to know Linux to use Linux," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I would just add that it's no different than going to a country where they drive on the other side of the road -- it's not harder, just 'diffe...

An alternative view came from Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site. "The article has it dead wrong," Hudson told LinuxInsider. "If you saw David Letterman when he was riding John McCain for lying, Letterman said, 'You know the road to the White Hous...

Indeed, the user's first mistake was "having anything to do with Geek Squad," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site Slashdot blogger hairyfeet went even further....