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Is it really The End? Do a survey first!Is it really The End? Do a survey first!Posted Aug 1, 2002 3:09 UTC (Thu) by virtex (subscriber, #3019)In reply to: Is it really The End? Do a survey first! by lonely_bear Parent article: Is it really The End? Looking at the donations "thank you" page (http://php.lwn.net/corp/supporters.php3), there are 775 people who have donated. I'm not sure how many of these make up the $25,000 amount quoted in the article, but if we assume they all do, that works out to an average donation of about $32 each. If all these donators buy a subscription, they would each have to pay an annual price of about $232 to make up the required $180,000 per year. In order to drop this down to, say $50/year, we would need about 5 times as many subscribers as donators. Given that the average donation was $32, there may be some people not able or willing to pay that much, but with some additional money coming in from advertising and sponsorship, they may be able to drop the price a bit further. I don't think obtaining that many subscriptions is at all unrealistic. I will definitely subscribe when it becomes available.
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