[amlgsmsn]

>Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds.

> less FUD on HN

So it's FUD only if it's not anti-MS FUD?

There was plenty of anti-MS FUD on Slashdot.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-dr...

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/windows-7-me...

Do you think the above stories and comments are FUD or not?

Eventually the biased story selection by editors, circlejerk, echo chamber and biased moderation got so bad that the site pretty much died. Do we want that to happen on here as well?

>I visit HN for startup news and occasionally open source news

Then perhaps just move past the other posts you're not interested in, like the HoloLens or Open Sourcing of .NET and other libraries announcements which are definitely 'Hacker News' material.

Or spend more time on other places like /r/linux etc.

>Who in the right mind would use vendor lock-in mediocre expensive licensed software for a startup

That's totally your opinion, it works for some companies like StackOverflow.

>less FUD on HN

Can you link me to some of this FUD you're talking about?