On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Robin Miller wrote:
>
> > What makes you believe lwn.com "looks like they're not long for this
> > world" ? Aren't they a division of Tucows and affiliated with Time
> > Warner? I don't think Time Warner is on the ropes. Worst case, they'll
> > just sell it off to someone else. What gives?
>
> Tucows cut LWN loose last week, and returned it to Liz Coolbaugh and Jon
> Corbett, who started it, to run or not as they see fit, because of low
> ad sales. Michael Hall (from LinuxToday) and I have talked to Jon, and
> he's talking about going back to programming. "I never really thought of
> myself as a journalist," he says.
>
> LWN is up in air. From what I know of their readership figures, ad rates
> (in general), and LWN's cost structure, there is no way the site can
> make money without some radical changes.
>
> - Robin
>
It's too bad that they can't make money.. but.. I would really hate to see
the weekly kernel summary disappear.. the lkml has way too much traffic
for me to read all of it so I really enjoy the summary.. The security page
is also useful..
Jason
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