Re: LWN - Pipedot

Peter Principle (Score: 3, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-19 17:30 (#26C)

Failing upwards. Great, the irresponsible maintainers of a second rate web browser get millions for something they have ZERO experience or expertise in, and reinventing a wheel that's available EVERYWHERE already via everything from phpBB to BuddyCloud and identi.ca etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking

Nice grift if you can get it. Do-nothing Mozilla and "don't you dare read our web site" NY Times deserve each other. A conjoined failure spiral.

Re: Peter Principle (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 19:17 (#26F)

I've never understood all the hatred around paying the NYT to read their articles. Journalists cost money - I have a couple of journalist friends, and their kids need shoes too. I pay the NYT for a subscription that lets me read it on the web - $8 a month or something, not much considering what I pay for coffee in a month, and the quality of the reporting is good. You want free? Go to CNN or Washington Post, but you get what you pay for.

There's a whole generation that insists on its right to reading news for free on the Internet, forgetting that it costs money to get the news, write it, edit it, and run the servers.

LWN (Score: 2, Informative)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 23:11 (#26M)

I like the approach taken by LWN. Offer a subscription (starting at $3.50 per month) for full access to all articles. Once an article is over 2 weeks old, allow access to everyone.

Re: LWN (Score: 2, Informative)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 23:12 (#26N)

LWN being Linux Weekly News.

Re: LWN (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-20 08:56 (#26Z)

Agree. Also, the price is reasonable. The NYT offers quality reading, but their prices are very high. Almost unreasonably high.

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