[Soci SLIP] chiude Linux Journal

[Davide Corio]

Amen

2017-12-02 15:58 GMT+01:00 Enrico Agliotti <enrico.agliotti a gmail.com>:

> 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
>
> --
> Inviato dal computer che sto usando in questo momento
>
>
> Enrico Agliotti
> cell. +39-328-0517312
> tel. con segreteria: +39-011-23415553
>
>
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