Restrict as little as possible

Restrict as little as possible

Posted Jul 30, 2002 22:09 UTC (Tue) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
Parent article: LWN status update

Please restrict content as little as possible.
(One crasy idea would be to make this dynamic, too).
The less restricting the higher my subscription price or
support ads from my company will be.

Note that restricting access will involve some technical
efforts that might be spend better elsewhere. As a reader
I prefer to get LWN content offroad or at other people's places, too.
Restrictions would make life harder for me.

Make sure that you offer subscriptions in a way that people
can pay more if they want to.
Actively and aggressively encourage people to think about the
value they get out of a free LWN and compare this to more common
media people are used to pay for (newspapers, magazines, cable(?)).

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