Libre Weekly News [LWN.net]

Libre Weekly News

Posted Feb 1, 2007 6:25 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: An LWN reader survey

LWN is the only online publication that I am happy to pay for. (I also pay for economist.com, but I'm not happy about it.)

I'm a long term, loyal, happy reader and I recommend LWN to others.

My main suggestion is vague and thematic rather than specific: change LWN from meaning "Linux Weekly News" to meaning "Libre Weekly News". (Okay, tongue in cheek, but...)

I'm very interested in Free Software applications whether or not they run on Linux, and I'm interested in Free Software operating systems other than Linux, and I'm interested in issues of Freedom other than as it related to Linux (e.g. patents, copyrights, DRM, censorship, network availability, search engine manipulation...).

Granted, the Linux Kernel Page is the brightest spot in LWN and deserves to keep its favored status, but there's no reason to discriminate against other, non-Linux-specific topics.

In fact, now that I think about it the most common source of irritation on this subject isn't content actually generated by LWN staff and contributors, but rather comments posted by readers griping about "competitors" or alternatives to Linux even when those alternatives are themselves Free Software.

But really, I have friends who run NetBSD instead of Linux and I'm interested in exploring OpenSolaris and I even, dare I say it, participate in communities which are promulgating Freedom and Free Software on Mac OS X and on Windows. It would be cool if I could recommend LWN to those folks without them wondering why I was recommending a "Linux" publication to them.

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Libre Weekly News

Posted Feb 1, 2007 12:12 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

I agree, though I think that's pretty much the case already, so I'm happy
with the status quo. Interestingly enough, the site barely, if at all,
uses the name 'Linux Weekly News' any more. It actually just calls itself
LWN.net everywhere.

Libre Weekly News

Posted Feb 1, 2007 14:17 UTC (Thu) by richardr (subscriber, #14799) [Link]

I agree, it's the only online resource I pay for, and I am happy to do so. I also go with the "vague and thematic" suggestion too. I use several operating systems and am interested in free software on all of them.