He is no longer the master of his own fate. One imagines not. Malda says, however, that he's got a really good contract. They can't touch the content. Malda is a delightfully ornery soul who surely will not take kindly to being told what he can or cannot do.
Slashdot readers can count on that.
Malda declined to be purchased by VA Linux last year because he wanted to avoid even the perception that Slashdot might not be its own editorial master. That perception exists now, and there's little that Malda can do to change it. The world of free software is all the poorer for it. Andrew Leonard is a senior correspondent for Salon Technology. The free software story Complete Salon Technology coverage of Linux, the open-source movement and free software's ideas and personalities.