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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @01:38PM (2 children)
With all the money I.B.M. and other large companies are investing in Linux (how many billions for Red Hat?) you’d think they could throw in a few bucks in ad buys to keep Linux Journal afloat.
(Score: 2) by Acabatag on Thursday August 08 2019, @02:30PM
But for what purpose. I like and end up collecting mags like Linux Journal, but there needs to be a sizable readership or it's irrelevant. People are used to much more immediate media now.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 08 2019, @03:00PM
I am grateful that IBM and other large companies throw money at Linux, Java, Eclipse, and many, many other open source projects. But they do so for their own profit making reasons. They see these projects as a net profit to invest in for the value they get out of them. Part of that large value is because other large investors also contribute manpower to these same projects, yet each investor reaps the benefits of EVERYONE's investment.
They probably don't see any profit to be made in investing in a publication. Unless those ads would generate sails.
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