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Free Software Magazine Inaugural Issue Released

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-download-on dept.

T ony Merc Mobily writes "Free Software Magazine is a new magazine entirely dedicated to free software. It contains quality articles relating to both technical and non-technical issues. The magazine's goal is to publish good articles which are then released under a free license after publication. The magazine obviously needs subscribers - the more, the better!" It's nice to be able to download magazines as PDF files, too.

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  1. Great magazine by jkauzlar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a very nicely layed-out magazine with some good in-depth articles. Well done! There's even a 6-page 'blog' written by Richard Stallman at the end. It seems like most tech magazines focus on software/hardware reviews, where FSM's coverage includes many of the political and ideological topics in software engineering.

    1. Re:Great magazine by tanguyr · · Score: 3, Informative

      from their subscription page:

      "Subscriptions are our main source of income, and we offer free advertising to free software companies."

      Now that's putting your money where your mouth is.

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  2. Too bad this isn't front page news by twistedcubic · · Score: 4, Informative

    The magazine looks nice, and seems like a genuine effort. Not sure why it's in the "developers" section, but I guess there isn't anything else appropriate. I'm thrilled that it was done using LaTeX. They should try to get this in the book store chains.