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Hold out long enough for the free sites to craterHold out long enough for the free sites to craterPosted Jul 31, 2002 3:29 UTC (Wed) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2971)Parent article: LWN status update If LWN can hold out long enough, in about another 12 to 18 months, a lot of Linux news website competition is going to go away. Consider VA Software. Given their current levels of cash, and their burn rate, they will be gone in about five quarters. When they go down in flames, so does slashdot.org, LinuxGram (overpriced), and NewsForge. Losing NewsForge would be sad, as they create some sane, non-juvenile, original content; but such is life when the market is consolidating. Think about all the other free Linux news sites. They are either amateur productions run by one person who will soon be overwhelmed or get bored and likely quit; or they are sponsored by corporations that are about to flameout in the last tremors of the dot.bomb bust. If LWN can just hold out for a while longer, a lot of this free competition is going to disappear. LWN would be left with a substantially larger readership, a sterling reputation in the industry for editorial excellence, more potential subscribers, and a better advertising market. Hang on guys. If The Register and The Inquirer can do it, so can you. And yes, I'll pony up the cash for subscriptions in the meantime.
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Hold out long enough for the free sites to crater Posted Jul 31, 2002 14:48 UTC (Wed) by Dre (guest, #123) [Link] I have been reading LWN for 4yrs and have found your content to be of excellent quality.I would say that paying for great articles & topics would be a good thing. Just like any good magazine or publication it has to be funded by someone. So a charged rate based on the reader's domain might be a fair way of keeping LWN going... How did the likes of the AOL's etc, make themselves profitable before they became massive. They had to charge their customers. We can't have something of quality for nothing, neither can the corps. So start charging & try and get some sponsorship. Good luck in your efforts. :-)
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