Limit the weekly edition [LWN.net]

Limit the weekly edition

Posted Jul 31, 2002 2:55 UTC (Wed) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2989)
In reply to: Limit the weekly edition by nas
Parent article: LWN status update

>> I think you should limit the weekly edition. It provides incentive for people to subscribe.

This very idea of subscription is obnoxious. If LWN Weekly is made a subscriber one, consider another reader as gone.

You can provide VAS without making LWN a paid online newsletter. Publishing a newsletter which reports on *free* software activities is actually built on the *goodness* of the Community which generates all this stuff as Libre!

Making such a newsletter a paid one is doing a disservice for this *freedom* loving Community. I sincerely hope that you would think twice and drop the idea suggested by the above poster.

Thanks any way for the wonderful newsletter that is LWN.

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Limit the weekly edition

Posted Jul 31, 2002 8:26 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]

As have been stated several times, - it costs serious money to make the newsletter. The freedom that you get with free software is free speech not free beer.

I would be more than willing to suscribe to LWN (of course, depending on the price). I don't understand the people that will not pay for this great newsletter. It's probably because people are used to everything on the net to be free. This is not much different from subscribing to a paper edition of any other computer magazine. Just because they write about free software, it doesn't mean the content should be free.

If LWN is able to survive by limiting the weekly edition to subscribers only, then do it!

And please keep the credit card payment option. Some people seem to forget that the internet also exists in the rest of the world. We more or less don't have any other options than to pay with our credit card!