Some reactions so far - a guest's view

Some reactions so far - a guest's view

Until now mostly subscribers have expressed their opinion, for obvious reasons. I'd like to add here a one of a potential subscriber.

The truly distinctive and valuable readings have been the weekly Kernel pages. Therefore I have contemplated subscribing for years. Years ago I even tried to get our small company to subscribe, but the value of linux was not yet clear to magagers back then. I might try again now, when managers are much more 'linux-prone'. Also, the salaries of developers here in Eastern Europe are growing so that the subscription would be well affordable already.

I think there may be many potential subscribers out there in a similar position due to the growth of linux use and linux-related jobs. And also because of continuing economic growth in quite some areas of the world.

1. Please extend the access restriction to the weekly Kernel pages. It should become at least 2 weeks, but I wouldn't mind more.

2. If making more subscription levels, please keep also the current lowest-fee level present as salaries of developers may well differ an order of magnitude between countries.

3. Don't bother with translations. After all, we non-English developers want to be able to read the cool comments in kernel ourselves, don't we.

It would be interesting to hear little bit about the statistics of guests as well. How many of them are regular readers (log in more or less regularly)? How many of them are there compared to subscribers?

The Grumpy Editor articles are very good ones compared to many of the software comparisons and overviews available on the net. But to be honest, most of the time they just save us just time and hassle to learn these things ourselves. The weekly Kernel pages, in contrast, provide overviews that are available nowhere else and often give insight to things which weren't graspable to a mere mortal developer without guidance. I have enjoyed also very much the Kernel articles written by other authors, the well-known kernel developers. Shortly, every effort put to extend and enhance Kernel pages would make LWN even more distinctive and would bring you more readers and of course more subscribers.

Jon, I would really like to thank you for all that excellent work, and also for the LDD work. In not so distant future I will subscribe, for sure.