Is Smolt the Key to Counting Linux Users? (InternetNews)

Because it's more effort than I'm willing to expend to submit the results of a hardware test. I don't need an account at another site. Launchpad also appears to be a site I would never go to. From the looks of it, it appears to be another Sourceforge.net. I don't have a need for that. If I create a log in, then I have to give out an email address, create a password, and then keep track of it. There's management overhead in keeping track of all of that. I get very little or nothing in return.

LWN, on the other hand, offers me much value and I return several times a week to read the site. I get so much value from LWN that not only did I create a login, I even paid money to support the site.

The primary difference is that in the case of LWN, I want something and I'm willing to trade my time and money to get it. With Ubuntu's hardware profiling, they are the ones that want something. I'm happy to help out but they have to lower the barrier to contribution as low as possible for me to help.