Dashdot's Parent Overandover.net Files for IPO Posted by CmdrGrits on Monday October 11, @04:30PM EDT from the we-promise-not-to-sell-out dept. Some of you have already noticed the filing. Yes, Overandover.net, which owns Dashdot, is going public. No, nothing changes. No, we will not put banner ads in the comments. Okay, we'll put one in the corner. A small one. Our lawyers have asked us to tell you that we are in a quiet period. This is the quietest I've ever been. Dashdot's Parent Overandover.net Files for IPO | Login/Create an Account | Top | 31 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 31 comments 0: 25 comments 1: 21 comments 2: 15 comments 3: 10 comments 4: 4 comments 5: 2 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. Congrats by CmdrGrits on Monday October 11, @04:54PM EDT (#3) (User Info) Seriously, congratulations. You built something people use every day out of a Perl script and spite. You've earned it. [ Reply to This ] Re:Congrats by MediaMaven on Monday October 11, @05:12PM EDT (#4) (User Info) I work in this field, and the parent is basically right, although the details are a bit more complicated than one comment can cover. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Congrats by MarkupMarcy on Monday October 11, @05:32PM EDT (#5) (User Info) This is the most sensible thing I've read on Dashdot all week. Somebody mod this up. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Congrats by CmdrGrits on Monday October 11, @05:51PM EDT (#8) (User Info) You're both wrong, and I'm going to explain why in a post that's way too long for anyone to read. Paragraph one: ... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Congrats by MarkupMarcy on Monday October 11, @05:56PM EDT (#9) (User Info) This. A thousand times this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Congrats by ByteBandit on Monday October 11, @05:59PM EDT (#10) (User Info) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Correction by StargazerSue on Monday October 11, @06:11PM EDT (#11) (User Info) Small correction to the story: it's not the first time this has been done. A university group demonstrated something very similar in 1996. The difference is that this one actually ships. [ Reply to This ] Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11, @06:30PM EDT (#12) Says the guy posting at 3am on a Tuesday. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Correction by ShopperSheila on Monday October 11, @07:12PM EDT (#16) (User Info) Not true at all. I've been running it for months with no problems. Maybe check your hardware? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11, @07:16PM EDT (#17) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Correction by RocketRandy on Monday October 11, @07:44PM EDT (#23) (User Info) So what you're saying is that it's a conspiracy. Got it. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Correction by FidoFan on Monday October 11, @07:25PM EDT (#18) (User Info) Hey, at least it's not Portals. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Information wants to be free by Prior Art Pete on Monday October 11, @06:40PM EDT (#13) (User Info) Information wants to be free. Hardware wants to be cheap. I want a nap. [ Reply to This ] Re:Information wants to be free by DomainDave on Monday October 11, @06:50PM EDT (#14) (User Info) Citation needed. Where are you getting these numbers? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Information wants to be free by overclocked_otter on Monday October 11, @07:32PM EDT (#20) (User Info) Heh. Nice one. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Information wants to be free by DomainDave on Monday October 11, @07:55PM EDT (#24) (User Info) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Old news by sysadmin_steve on Monday October 11, @07:27PM EDT (#19) (User Info) This was on a mailing list I read three weeks ago. Dashdot, always first with yesterday's news. [ Reply to This ] Shares for readers by StylusSam on Monday October 11, @08:22PM EDT (#26) (User Info) Will there be a directed share program for readers? Some of us have karma to cash in. [ Reply to This ] Profit by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11, @08:42PM EDT (#28) Step 1: write story. Step 2: get 300 comments. Step 3: ... [ Reply to This ] Standards by dormroom_dj on Monday October 11, @08:56PM EDT (#29) (User Info) This is why we need open standards. Without them every vendor builds a little walled garden and the users pay for the walls. [ Reply to This ] My experience by RocketRandy on Monday October 11, @09:02PM EDT (#30) (User Info) I've been working in this industry for 15 years, and I can tell you that this kind of thing comes around every five years with a new name. The underlying ideas don't change much; the marketing does. [ Reply to This ] 10 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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