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On the Future of Linux Weekly News

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the community-chest dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Heh, I knew it... by AirLace · · Score: 1, Troll

    You are deluding yourself if you think someone needs "a minimum of $12K" a month to "write and analyse the news in addition to providing links to other sites". These people are conmen, nothing more. If you have some spare cash, pass it on to the great guys at XFree86. The whole Linux desktop is based on their code, and yet it's really faded from the public eye in recent years, as people have instead concentrated on KDE and GNOME.

    If people can spend hours a day for months on end, I'm sure there's someone out there who will be able to offer an LWN because they _love the software_, not because they want to make a bundle off the shoulders of helpful Linux users. Donating big money to a for-profit company which writes news is not the way to go!

  2. Re:Writing is work! by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 1, Troll

    $12k/month barely pays two IT salaries

    Or feeds 1000 starving children.

    I say let the IT employees fend for themselves.