On the future of LWN [LWN.net]

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 27, 2002 17:54 UTC (Sat) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2857)
Parent article: On the future of LWN

Consider the following..

1. your publishing costs are nil. (formatting is another matter, but you said the server is free).

2. your production costs are absolutely minimal.

3. This is a tiny magazine.

4. you don't have to market in a way that traditional magazines do.

5. all of your employees can telecommute

6. Linux is a blossoming sector of the IT industry, and this publications follows open source in general!

7. Being a popular magazine, you should be more than able to rally an ample supply of volunteer or part time writers.

We don't need a bunch of lazy fat cats whining about the mag. If you can't manage things, give it to me and I'll make a ton of money with it, redesign the site in the process, and increase readership.. Nooooo problem.

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On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 27, 2002 17:58 UTC (Sat) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2857) [Link]

The problem is not readership or advertising or labor costs, it is that the publishers want to get fat.

Pass the mag on to a new generation of go getters for whom this would be an amazing opportunity rather than a liability, and I'm sure they'll take the mag in new and better directions than you ever would have anyways.

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 28, 2002 1:08 UTC (Sun) by Recluse (guest, #714) [Link]

... don't feed the troll.

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 28, 2002 21:40 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

... and I did. I'm so embarrassed. :-}

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 29, 2002 0:02 UTC (Mon) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2857) [Link]

Mua hahaha. lmao

So there's a new name for dissent, eh?

Shadrac is going down

Posted Jul 29, 2002 7:01 UTC (Mon) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2936) [Link]

Only the voice of inexperience can speak with the confidence of an idiot. You my friend have spoken LOUDLY. Whilst you have proclaimed that LWN is "whining" about their ability to publish, I have not seen one example of this in any part of the article regarding their possible future. I have read it thoroughly and repeatedly searching for this "whining" you speak of. What proof do you have of "whining" other than the ridicuous noise coming from beneath your fingers? At the same time, you profess to being capable of taking the sinking ship and forming it into a fleet to be envied by all good capitalists. (I hardly see this as being possible since capitalism is dying by the same sword that destroyed communism, but that is another discussion.) Yet, you present no startling new ideas or approaches that stir the mind and soul into an inspirational fervor. Methinks you are merely a fool, with the mouth of an ingrate and the fever inspired by a feeble mind.

Everyone is going through financial hardship right now. As stated before, capitalism is failing. It, as a system, has nearly run it's course. Much like communism, it was a good idea, but it was unworkable for the same reason: human greed. Until that wretched quality is stamped out of humanity, all systems will continue to fail.

LWN should consider the possibility that capitalism will fail, and try to come up with an approach that moves onto a better system. Think of how to set up checks and balances within LWN and amongst it's readers to prevent greed from ruining a good thing. Greed must be stamped out at all cost.