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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. Not sure if... by agapeton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...truly shutting down or announcing a shutdown so the news will give free advertising.

  2. Re:The H was awesome by mysticalreaper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We need to get more creative about funding methods. What ever happened to micropayments? If you pitched in 5 cents for every article with merit that you read, would that make a difference? We must have a better idea than advertising.