[Soci SLIP] chiude Linux Journal

[Enrico Agliotti]

per me è una pessima notizia.
Dal 1998, o giù di li, sono sempre stato abbonato. :'(

It looks like we’re at the end, folks. If all goes according to a plan
we’d rather not have, the November issue of Linux Journal was our
last.

The simple fact is that we’ve run out of money, and options along with
it. We never had a wealthy corporate parent or deep pockets of our
own, and that made us an anomaly among publishers, from start to
finish. While we got to be good at flying close to the ground for a
long time, we lost what little elevation we had in November, when the
scale finally tipped irrevocably to the negative.

While we see a future like publishing’s past—a time when advertisers
sponsor a publication because they value its brand and readers—the
advertising world we have today would rather chase eyeballs,
preferably by planting tracking beacons in readers' browsers and
zapping them with ads anywhere those readers show up. But that future
isn’t here, and the past is long gone.

[...]

We also hope there is some solace in knowing that we worked very, very
hard at keeping Linux Journal going, and we’ve been doing that for a
long time, running the leanest, smallest possible operation we could.
We are a collection mostly of volunteers, and some of our employees
haven’t been paid in months. We still owe money to freelancers as
well. There is a limit to how long a publisher can maintain those
neglects, and that limit has now been reached.

It has been a great run, folks. A big hats-off to everyone who
contributed to our birth, our success and our persistence over these
many years. We’d run the credits now, but the list would be too long,
and the risk of leaving worthy people out would be too high. You know
who you are. Our thanks again.

With all my sincerity, sorrow, and gratitude,

Carlie Fairchild

Publisher, Linux Journal
Linux Journal
PO Box 170127, Austin, TX 78717

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Enrico Agliotti
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