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FromGene Heskett <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] delete devfs
DateThu, 22 Jul 2004 06:24:15 -0400
On Thursday 22 July 2004 04:23, sam@ravnborg.org wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:40:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:

[...]

>> If essential information for contributing to the Linux kernel
>> would be available only for paying costumers of LWN this was my
>> last day on linux-kernel. [1]
>
>Information on LWN is just delayed one week. So with a bit of
> patience...
>
>	Sam

Thats not how it appears to us non-subscribers.  The embargo is 2 
weeks, and then whatever was there under the $ marker apparently goes 
off to /dev/null, we can never see it.  Or at least theres no obvious 
link that goes around that time period, allowing us full access to $ 
stuff after the 2 week embargo.

I cannot blme LWN for wanting to be self-supporting, but IMO its 
utility as a news source was severely reduced by those subscription 
only changes that appear to permenently restrict the non-subscriber 
in actual fact.  This was not the announced intentions back then 
IIRC.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. 
Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order, starting now.  -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
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