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Posted Apr 24, 2009 9:40 UTC (Fri) by Janne (guest, #40891)
In reply to: No, you leave by MisterIO
Parent article: How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done (Lifehacker)

He did not pay for this particular article (which is available for free in any case), he paid for subscribing to LWN, which gives him many benefits over non-subscribers (like early access to the weekly editions).

Should we all constantly voice our opinions about whether we like or dislike some particular article? The comments would then quickly degenerate in to arguiming that is the article interesting or not, as opposed to actually discussing the contents of the article.

And in this case, the "article" is basically just a link to the interview, and a short blurb from it. So what's the harm here? this article didn't take any resources from the editors, so is this a case of aesthetics or something? That the person does not want to read about Steve Wozniak, so everything related to Woz should not appear in LWN?

what I get from his comment is a sense of entitlement. "I'm a subscriber and I demand that you stop publishing articles like this!". The easy solution is to simply not read the article in question. No-one is required to read everything that LWN publishes, we ARE free to pick and choose the articles that interest us. Demanding that LWN only publishes "interesting" articles is dumb, since every single LWN-reader has a different idea as to what is "interesting" and what is not. You can't please everyone. The easy solution is to simply skip the articles that do not interest you, instead of throwing a hissy-fit about it.


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Posted Apr 24, 2009 10:10 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] (1 responses)

I wholeheartedly agree.

I have no idea why people wants to impose a "only my interests" limitation on this wonderful news service, then we would need to have a gazillion mini-lwn's, each with like 4 readers.

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Posted Apr 24, 2009 10:50 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

In just a few comments this escalated from a simple observation, although obviously written without support from the legal department, to a Slashdot-worthy skirmish. Thank God nobody mentioned the nazis.

Count me among those who feel that some articles (especially most linking to blog posts) are filler, and therefore bring down the LWN value.


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