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Where has the pioneer spirit of LWN gone?Where has the pioneer spirit of LWN gone?Posted Aug 8, 2002 7:06 UTC (Thu) by eyal (subscriber, #949)Parent article: Where has the pioneer spirit of LWN gone? Thomas, Behind your criticism of LWN financials, is the question why it takes 5 people full-time to write LWN. I don't know what is your field of expertise, but I'm sure you can find a complicated issue in that field. Now try to write an 1-2 page article about this issue, but an article that eveyone can understand. Make sure your language is clear. Make sure there are no spelling mistakes. Make sure you've provided enough background to put the article in the right context and perspective. Finished? Not yet. Let someone else read the article and ask for comments. You'll probably need to re-write portions of the article. You'll spend about a full working day to produce just 1-2 pages of quality text. That's just the writing. Now consider all the reading that LWN people have to do. Consider they need to travel to conferences or other events. If you'll take all this into account, you'll find out that running a quality magazine & news-feed costs quite a lot. The key word here is QUALITY. A hobbyist can't produce this quality in his or her spare time. Most LWN readers want, maybe even need this quality, and are willing to pay for it. We the readers have offered our money, rather than LWN asking for money. The Free spirit at its best. Eyal Zvi.
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