An LWN status update: thoughts

An LWN status update: thoughts

First, you can charge more. You originally thought of a donation pool to keep lwn going, and that didn't make sense to me. I saw a nice simple business model, and a way to generate revenue. Thankfully you adopted that. An extra 10-20% per year is not going to drive me away.

Second, you can add stuff I care about (not just me but others like me, and therefore get some additional readers). Specifically linux clusters. ClusterWorld magazine died this past year, as they could not get sufficient readership to sustain a print magazine. It is not hard to get a cluster/grid column here, and it is quite pertinent to the whole of linux. I don't know if anyone here has noticed, but Linux has achieved world domination in high performance computing. I have written articles for CW as well as my own blogs and others, and it wouldn't be that hard to recruit a few writers for bits like this. Do the same thing for databases, and web servers/portals/...

Just some random thoughts on this.