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LWN status updateLWN status updatePosted Jul 30, 2002 23:09 UTC (Tue) by malor (subscriber, #2973)Parent article: LWN status update It seems like the 'limit access for awhile' is a good approach. I was originally thinking 'a week', but another poster suggests a month. I think either could work. The nature of your commentary is such that it won't lose much value in a month, so that might be the better choice. I do think that the 'security updates' page should probably stay free; security is everyone's problem. Reasonably open and transparent books would be nice, too. This, unfortunately, forces you to reveal staff salaries (at least in aggregate). I don't see any easy way around that. I guess it depends on whether you intend to structure as a nonprofit. If so, then open books strike me as an absolute necessity. It feels like a subscription system is the smart way to go... one-off donations require that you beg over and over for new money, where a subscription requires only one beg, and can last a long while. I'm not sure why people are so resistant to subscriptions to online sites. We've been doing it for magazines forever, after all; nobody expects Time to give us their product for free, yet for some reason we seem to think that Web content should all be gratis. Yet more damage from the dotcom bubble, I suppose. At any rate, this is one of the best Linux sites I read. I have been somewhat intermittent over the years, but keep coming back. I'll subscribe as soon as you come up with a system to handle it.
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