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Submission + - Linux Magazine Team Quits, Launches New Profit-Donating Mag

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15, 2013 @07:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: What happens when the editorial team of the biggest-selling English Linux magazine get frustrated? They leave their company, and start a new one. Most of the writers behind Linux Format have jumped ship and started Linux Voice, a social enterprise magazine which will donate 50% of its profits back to the community, and freely license its content under Creative Commons after 9 months. They're running a fundraiser on Indiegogo with already a quarter reached. Will this shake up the whole publishing industry?

Comment Re:Napster--Very Worth It (Score 1) 205

by icarusfall on Friday November 02, 2007 @11:56AM (#21212911) Attached to: Napster - Music Subsciptions Are Overrated

I use eMusic, which has a subscription model. No DRM, which is nice. Smaller music selection than iTunes, though, which is annoying. Luckily most of the music I like is on eMusic. So...subscription with no DRM works fine for me. I think it's a bit unfair to damn the whole subscription model on the basis of Napster's implementation (although that I appreciate that's the topic.

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