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New site feature: comment response notificationsNew site feature: comment response notificationsPosted Feb 5, 2004 12:34 UTC (Thu) by stuart_hc (guest, #9737)Parent article: New site feature: comment response notifications I support the efforts of LWN.net to encourage more higher paying subscribers, however I object to the assertion $5 is no longer very much money in much of the worldThis statement appears to ignore the large number of IT students and professionals living in countries where $5 is an impossibly high monthly subscription. Perhaps the author intended "much of the world" to mean "much of the western world". Living in a city in India with significant IT industries like Hyderabad, $5 US (about 230 Rp) is a significant burden for students and even some professionals. To illustrate this, here are some items a Comp. Sci. student in Hyderabad could spend 230 Rp on:
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New site feature: comment response notifications Posted Feb 5, 2004 14:33 UTC (Thu) by sfllaw (guest, #7137) [Link] Wow. Here in Canada, there is no way you could get a textbook for 25 loaves of bread. You would need 100 up here.It's amazing how large the price disparities are.
New site feature: comment response notifications Posted Feb 5, 2004 20:02 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] It seems to me like LWN ought to accept services in exchange forsubscriptions, since money is an enormously inefficient way of getting value from subscribers in places with lower costs of living. On the other hand, there's a set of 37 articles which is only currently available in English and might be more helpful to driver authors in their native languages. I think, in the US, translation of an article is probably worth about 8 months of project-leader subscriptions, and I don't see any reason the same exchange rate wouldn't apply elsewhere.
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