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The end of the road

Posted Jul 26, 2002 14:19 UTC (Fri) by jgm (subscriber, #2834)
Parent article: The end of the road

I hope you find your miracle. I've donated my US$100. I hope it helps keep
you going. If not, consider it my late :-( subscription fee for your fine
publication.

I've found LWN to be the best site for keeping up with what is happening
in the GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Open Source Software world. I'm really
going to miss you!! I especially enjoyed the Kernel section. My Thursday's
are just not going to be the same without LWN!

In any case, best of luck to you all and thanks for the great work you've
done on LWN. I hope you can find a way to continue.

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why is everything dependent on money?

Posted Jul 26, 2002 15:03 UTC (Fri) by DeletedUser2836 ((unknown), #2836) [Link]

LWN is one of the best news sites on the net. Especially the weekly 
summaries are good for people like me who do not have time to read 
news every day. It is sad to see that lwn goes away. 
Personally I think that you should also think a bit about "what is money". 
I know it's hard for Americans to accept that money is not everything but 
to be come more independent of money and profit gives you more freedom 
in the long run. 
At <a href="http://linuxfocus.org">linuxfocus.org</a> we have also during 
the years 1999-2000 been thinking about running this site for profit. I am 
glad we did not do that. It gives you soooo much more independence and 
freedom when you don't have to think all the time about money. 
If lwn wants to have a bright and long future then you need to find 
ways to be cost efficient and find ways to finance your running costs 
and don't depend on advertisements. 
Don't get me wrong. I have donated already money to lwn and I really like 
it as it is today but I believe that lwn has to change just slightly 
in it's structure and it will survive, be less dependent on money and 
thus be immortal. 
Lwn could e.g be more a linux community activity.

why is everything dependent on money?

Posted Jul 26, 2002 15:11 UTC (Fri) by DeletedUser2836 ((unknown), #2836) [Link]

Hmmm, sorry, the previous post should have been like this:

LWN is one of the best news sites on the net. Especially the weekly
summaries are good for people like me who do not have time to read
news every day. It is sad to see that lwn goes away.
Personally I think that you should also think a bit about "what is money".
I know it's hard for Americans to accept that money is not everything but
to become more independent of money gives you more freedom
in the long run.

At linuxfocus.org we have also during
the years 1999-2000 been thinking about running this site for profit. I am
glad we did not do that. It gives you soooo much more independence and
freedom when you don't have to think all the time about money.

If lwn wants to have a bright and long future then you need to find
ways to be cost efficient and find ways to finance your running costs
and don't depend on advertisements.

Don't get me wrong. I have donated already money to lwn and I really like
it as it is today but I believe that lwn has to change just slightly
in it's structure and it will survive, be less dependent on money and
thus be immortal.
Lwn could e.g be more a linux community activity.

The end of the road

Posted Jul 26, 2002 15:11 UTC (Fri) by belayme (subscriber, #2835) [Link]

I contributed a little bit about a month ago. I will continue to contribute if LWN continues to exist. I would subscribe if LWN changed to a subscription model.

One thought. Why not have a LWN credit card like "The Linux Fund", where money would go to lwn for each purchase somebody makes. I have a Linux Fund card that I try to make most of my monthly credit card purchases with. I would gladly switch to a card that benefits LWN.