why is everything dependent on money? [LWN.net]

why is everything dependent on money?

Posted Jul 26, 2002 15:03 UTC (Fri) by DeletedUser2836 ((unknown), #2836)
In reply to: The end of the road by jgm
Parent article: The end of the road

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.

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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.