Talk:Geeknet

message: Isn't the stock chart image a bit too tacky?
--69.214.224.74 07:14, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's all that tacky, since VA Linux is a classic example of a "dot com bubble" company.  -- Kaszeta 11:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: I like the early stock price chart too, even though I'm a fan of VA Software now.  As noted in the article, VA Linux had the biggest first-day pop in US (Worldwide?) IPO history.  Then it plummeted from about $320 to about 50 cents.  Quite notable, IMHO.  I did ad a link for a current interactive chart to the text.  JonWinge 23:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dear [[User:Edward|Edward]]

message: Hey, what does VA stand for? --DevastatorIIC 09:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the last name of the two founders: Vera and Augustin? 16@r 16:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's nice to know. My first guess was Virginia, but now I see that they were in California when they named the company. wbm1058 (talk) 13:04, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Fundamental question

message: Why does their software call home when I start my computer? 66.35.250.99 is called REPEATEDLY when my computer is started. Only know that because Peer Guardian blocks that address. What is this software, and how do I get rid of it?
: This is Wikipedia, not a support forum. I'd use Wireshark to find out what host name it talks to, though. -- Martin von Gagern (talk) 08:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Question 

message: I have thoroughly fixed and updated the links used as references for this article because they had quite a few faults. The essential problem is the use of bare links; i.e., a URL with no other identifying information. These frequently break, and without data like news article titles or website page titles, it is often impossible even to know where to look for a replacement source. (Archive sites like the Wayback Machine or Google sometimes help, but often do not. In this case, all of the VA Software press releases disappeared when the company moved their website to sourceforge.com, and the archive sites only caught two of them before they ceased to exist.
In short, bare links should be never be used as sources for Wikipedia articles. You don't necessarily have to create a fully filled-out citation, but at least include basic title or descriptive information with the reference. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:36, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with bare links for references 

message: The article not show cultural aspects, important hosted softwares, etc. The focus is only financial aspects of the comapany and its iniciatives.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.43.56.30 (talk) 19:21, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  FInance information encyclopedia? 

message: Can't seem to find any sources regarding its closure?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronalde (talk • contribs) 08:08, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened to newsforge.com?

message: Performed a general copy-edit of the article.  Noted several places that should have additional citations.  It seems like the recent parts of the entry are starting to become more of a random collection of financial factoids and trivia than an encyclopedic entry...  Macwhiz (talk) 16:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-edit 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: * Aug. 15, 2000 – Andover.net's assets were transferred to a new division of VA Linux called the  (OSDN). OSDN launched a beta site, OSDN.comCompaq, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Join Open Source Development Network 'OSDN' as Technology Partners., Business Wire, 16 Aug 2000 @ archive.org
* nost:OSDN shows that we have history of OSDN dating to August 27, 2001.
* at 15:51, 25 February 2002 a content fork was started at .
* at 19:11, 14 August 2003‎ content was merged from OSDN to Open Source Technology Group.
* July 27, 2004 – OSDN was renamed to Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) in 2004. @ archive.org
* at 18:03, 30 July 2004‎  moved to  (a redirect  →  was created).
* this 18:09, 30 July 2004 edit changed the name. I don't see the actual move in this page history, as the oldest moves recorded in the move log only go back to June 28, 2005, when MediaWiki 1.5 was introduced.
* on February 3, 2008 Open Source Technology Group was merged into SourceForge, Inc. This is the last version of Open Source Technology Group before the merge. Page history remains at this title.
Given this history, and the trivial one-edit overlap in these page histories (i.e. only one edit of parallel history), I am going to hist-merge OSDN into , to clear the way for moving SourceForge.JP → OSDN. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:52, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I am glad you untangled that but I thought I would mention that "Open Source Developers Network" (mentioned at nost:OSDN) is some sort of misnomer as historic sources show the correct name is/was "Open Source Development Network" (the same name the current OSDN and OSDN K.K. are based upon) was the proper name. 50.53.1.33 (talk) 21:20, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  OSDN history