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On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
It seems that if you intend to do anything related to the Open Source Movement, then you'd better put aside any hope of making money and do it for the love.
The impending death of LNUX and the soon to be dead LWN are just more proof.
What kind of fucked up worldview do you have where its a case of "putting aside their principles to ask for money"? They need money to live you stupid fuck. Where was it written that you must live in near poverty in order to have anything to do with the "community"?
The "code" is NOT the only thing that matters. Not if people have to waste their lives while writting it and or supporting it and yes thats what sites like LWN do, they support the code. Those who write it and those who use it. But you couldn't possibly see anything beyond your own myopic command line, things like bills, kids, retirement savings, college savings fro the kids.......etc. No. All of that adds up to "putting aside their principles to ask for money" to you. Nevermind that after the money is split amongst all the people working at the site that they only take home about $36k tops each. Ohhhhh thats SOOOOO much money!
I hope you'll discover the whole wide world thats out there someday before you get too old. There's more to life than code, and causes more noble then creating free software.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.