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The H Shuts Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-folks-did-good-work dept.

TexasDex writes "After years of providing great news reporting to the open source community, including interviews, great Linux kernel update summaries, and even breaking the Skype spying story well before it was leaked, The H Online is closing down due to lack of profitability. I've checked them daily for years, so it's sad to see them go."

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  1. Never heard of them. by sproketboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess that was part of their problem. Too bad - it's a great resource.

    1. Re:Never heard of them. by TWiTfan · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm pretty tech savy, and follow a ton of tech news sites, and I never heard of them either.

      I guess you can't open source marketing.

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    2. Re:Never heard of them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Even if I'd seen "The H" I would not have known what it was, so a more descriptive name would have helped.

    3. Re:Never heard of them. by TWiTfan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think maybe I could make a larger point here about how many open source projects are prone to picking fucking awful names (GIMP, I'm looking in you're direction). But it would only lead to a bunch of people listing bad names of proprietary products too, I suppose.

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  2. Until just now I had never heard of them by DigitalReverend · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No wonder profitability is down, you kind of have to get the word out that you exist.

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