Attention Paid To The Counter
At the time when Linux first burst into the limelight (around 1999), there were quite a few news articles about the Linux Counter, including three Slashdot articles (the first two of which brought the counter to its knees). Linux Today reported how Microsoft Austria used the site for spamming Linux users; the counter keeps a list of press references, occasionally updated.
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Famous quotes containing the words attention, paid and/or counter:
“Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s not that I don’t have opinions, rather that I’m paid not to think aloud.”
—Yitzhak Navon (b. 1921)
“I’d take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich on toast. I thought I was living large!... When I was at the Ritz with the publisher a few months ago, I did think, “Oh my God, I’m in the Ritz tearoom.” ... The person who was so happy to sit at the Woolworths counter is now sitting at the Ritz, listening to the harp, and wondering what tea to order.... [ellipsis in source] Am I awake?”
—Connie Porter (b. 1959)