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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye
IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC:
On August 7, 2019, Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff were laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue in any capacity. The website will continue to stay up for the next few weeks, hopefully longer for archival purposes if we can make it happen.
–Linux Journal, LLCFinal Letter from the Editor: The Awkward Goodbye
by Kyle Rankin
Have you ever met up with a friend at a restaurant for dinner, then after dinner you both step out to the street and say a proper goodbye, only when you leave, you find out that you both are walking in the same direction? So now, you get to walk together awkwardly until the true point where you part, and then you have another, second goodbye, that's much more awkward.
That's basically this post.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday August 08 2019, @03:10PM
> physical printed form
Well, that's the, uh, issue. I also felt excited that the existence of print editions was a confirmation that libre software merited the expense. After years of being dismissed by the powerful as just a bunch of hobbyists, neckbeards, smelly hippies-- I mean, this goes back to why Apple was founded. In the 1970s, IBM didn't believe in the concept of a personal computer. Even if it could be done, they didn't believe in the masses, didn't believe people were ready for computers of their own, seemed to think that people would never be ready. But, it was more that they didn't want computers in the hands of ordinary people. That would disrupt their business.
But at the same time that print served as an indication of success, it seemed so backwards. Worse, it seemed to be saying that, yeah, hackers still needed traditional publishers, and copyright, and could still be controlled. Where was copyleft? The paperless office? The Age of Information? To read LJ in print felt like riding a horse to an automobile show. And in the back of your mind as you rode, you could hear the buggy whip manufacturers whispering that you still needed them.