Working from a low-rent house in Holland, Michigan, Rob Malda and Jeff Bates run Slashdot.org - a must-read news service for nerds who embrace the spirit of the open-source software movement. "This is a missionary site," says the bespectacled Bates.
Launched in mid-1997, Slashdot boasts more than 60,000 regular visitors. "We built it, and they came," Malda laughs. And they stay to argue in the site's discussion areas. Topics range from popular misconceptions about Linux to reviews of Star Trek: Insurrection. Malda's geek critique: "This movie was worse than Star Trek V, which was also complete crap."
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