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Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases Second Issue CC-BY-SA

Posted by Soulskill on from the coming-through-on-a-promise dept.

M-Saunders writes: As covered previously on Slashdot, Linux Voice crowdfunded its way to success in late 2013, showing how a small team can make things happen with a different business model (giving profits and content back to the community). Now, a few months after the magazine made issue 1 freely available, they've released issue 2 under the Creative Commons for everyone to share and modify. If you've ever fancied making your own Raspberry Pi-powered arcade machine, there's a full guide in the second issue.

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  1. Shame it's not open source by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sadly, despite all the criticism of the issue 1 release, they've stuck to their guns and released most of their articles as "object files" in PDF. To me, that feels like their being purposefully obstructive -- it is such a faff to extract text from a PDF file, and they must already have the article text in an editable format.

    I hope we don't get an announcement for every single issue from now on in. Let's wait until there's some actual news before running another /. story....

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    1. Re:Shame it's not open source by DaveAtWorkAnnoyingly · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There are so many holes with this post I'm going to have to only pick the top couple. This is of course, irrelevant if the post is sarcasm which I really hope it is. However, being British, I'm pretty good at identifying sarcasm. I can only assume therefore that the post was made by a particularly immature teenager or younger who hasn't get got a clue on how the world works.

      Actually, I've changed my mind. Most of the readers of this will already be rolling their eyes, I'm not going to waste my time stating the obvious... The AC can come back and ask for more if he/she requires...

      I'm going to go and continue breathing the free air I have, and drinking the water of which I pay for...