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Free Software Magazine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clean-living-in-china dept.

EmilEifrem writes: "Why hasn't everyone submitted this story one million times? Anyway, the Free Software Magazine (FSM), issue 01 is out there. There's a column by RMS, an article about making a living with free software, a C advocacy article and even an "enterprise" section, amongst other things. Seems like a promising first issue. s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g."

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  1. Re:An Offtopic question... by Frank+White · · Score: 0, Informative

    Yes. You probably modded up The Post Heard 'Round Slashdot. All of us who did have lost our metamod privileges.

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  2. A free software magazine not free?!? by Masem · · Score: 3, Informative
    The base cost for our distributor is USD2.00/copy, plus the air shipping cost, the air freight tariff varies according to the country and city the distributor located, plus 5% handling on the basis of C+F airport price.
    You mean a magazine about free software isn't free?!?!? </joke>

    Seriously, you can grab the PDF files and make your own copies for free. The $2 above seems reasonable for cost of printing and paper, and to keep a bit buoyant in terms of profit.

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  3. PDF link by koolade · · Score: 5, Informative

    The PDF link on the site doesn't work. The real link is http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/ISSUE01/issue01 pdf.tar.bz2

  4. Re:C Advocacy by Cyclops · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I'd just recommend a quick visit at freshmeat's browse by programming language page. There are 3.01 C programs for each Java program. And that's not counting C++, C# and Objective-C, which will make it 4.21 C derivate programs for each java program.

    I do agree that the motives he stated are somewhat trivial. My quick statistics are far better. A pity I can't easily count the lines of code, I'd laugh even more of java (of course you must count the real program lines and not the library lines, although they should also be taken in account for greater fairness).

    Hugs, Cyclops

  5. Stale... by erat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Could we have some recent articles? Rehashing articles that have appeared elsewhere is not my idea of producing a quality online zine. I could do the same thing by putting links on any ol' web page. Doing so and calling it a "magazine" is questionable at best. (I'm sure some of the content is new, like RMS' opening editorial. Other articles in the mag seem old, though.)

    All things considered, I'm not impressed.