[olug] Fwd: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC.

Fri Aug 9 08:16:40 CDT 2019

Ironically I had been looking for a simple task to brush up on Python
programming, so I thought I'd setup a recurring script to download the PDF
versions of the magazine into my GDrive and store locally.

I guess I can still do that, but the "running monthly" feature is not
necessary anymore. :(

Dan

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:47 PM Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes it does.    I hope they release some of the back issues.....
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:27 AM Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, this sucks ...again...
> >
> > DanL
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Linux Journal <subs at linuxjournal.com>
> > Date: Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:44 PM
> > Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC.
> > To: DAN at LINDER.ORG <DAN at linder.org>
> >
> >
> > The Awkward Goodbye
> > [image: Subscribe Now]
> >
> >
> > *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 web site will continue to stay up for the next few weeks,
> > hopefully longer for archival purposes if we can make it happen.*
> >
> > *–Linux Journal, LLC*
> >
> > *
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
> >
> > *Final 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.
> >
> > So, it was almost two years ago that I first said goodbye to *Linux
> > Journal*
> > and the *Linux Journal* community in my post "So Long and Thanks for All
> > the Bash <https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-r/>".
> > That post was a proper goodbye. For starters, it had a catchy title with
> a
> > pun. The post itself had all the elements of a proper goodbye: part
> > retrospective, part "Thank You" to the *Linux Journal* team and the
> > community, and OK, yes, it was also part rant. I recommend you read (or
> > re-read) that post, because it captures my feelings about losing *Linux
> > Journal* way better than I can muster here on our awkward second goodbye.
> >
> > Of course, not long after I wrote that post, we found out that *Linux
> > Journal* wasn't dead after all! We all actually had more time together
> and
> > got to work fixing everything that had caused us to die in the first
> place.
> > A lot of our analysis of what went wrong and what we
> > intended to change was captured in my article "What *Linux Journal's*
> > Resurrection Taught Me about the FOSS Community
> > <https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-y/>" that we
> > posted in our 25th anniversary issue.
> >
> > So we set to work and things were starting to look very promising. One of
> > the changes I was particularly excited about was our expanded Deep Dive
> > section in each issue. This "long-form journalism" approach to technical
> > writing was something pretty special in the technical world and coming
> from
> > someone who wrote a few Deep Dives of his own, there was something very
> > freeing in knowing you could truly give a topic justice without
> artificial
> > constraints on page length. You, the readers, and also new writers
> > responded, and you could feel the new life and new energy in each issue.
> > After dying and being revived, it was finally starting to look like some
> > day soon we would be able to walk on our own.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we didn't get healthy enough fast enough, and when we
> found
> > out we needed to walk on our own strength, we simply couldn't. So here we
> > are giving our second, much more awkward, goodbye. What happens now? We
> > gave each other a proper hug during the first goodbye, do we hug again
> this
> > time? Do we do the hand-shake-that-turns-into-a-single-arm-hug thing? Do
> we
> > just sort of wave and smile?
> >
> > It wouldn't be right to say goodbye without acknowledging the wonderful
> > *Linux
> > Journal* community we have been blessed with who have stuck with us
> > throughout the years and encouraged so much during our first goodbye. To
> > quote from my own recounting of that time:
> >
> > Ultimately, we couldn't keep the lights on. *Linux Journal* announced
> that
> > it was shutting down on December 1, 2017. I followed up that announcement
> > with an emotional farewell of my own. If you read that farewell, you'll
> see
> > that somewhere in the middle it changed from a memoir into a manifesto.
> My
> > sadness at seeing something I had worked on for ten years going away was
> > replaced by anger that the Linux community had seemed to lose its way. I
> > lost my way. I took Linux and FOSS for granted. It became clearer than
> ever
> > to me that while Linux and FOSS had won the battle over the tech giants a
> > decade before, new ones had taken their place in the meantime, and we
> were
> > letting them win. Although I had written and spoken about Linux and FOSS
> > for years, and used it personally and professionally, I felt like I
> hadn't
> > done enough to support this thing I cared about so much. The death of
> > *Linux
> > Journal* was a major factor in my decision to put my money where my mouth
> > was, quit my job, and join Purism so I could work full-time helping to
> > forward this cause.
> >
> > So yeah, I took the news pretty hard. We all took the news pretty hard,
> but
> > where I had just lost a freelance writing gig, all of the core *Linux
> > Journal* team had just lost their full-time jobs. It was a difficult
> time,
> > yet we also were flooded with so much support from you, our readers. Some
> > people contacted us just to tell us how much they loved the magazine and
> > how sorry they were to see it go. Others offered to pay more for their
> > subscriptions if that would somehow help. Others still contacted us to
> see
> > if they could develop a fundraising program to keep the magazine alive. I
> > can't stress how much this incredible outpouring of support helped all of
> > us during this difficult time. Thank you.
> >
> > So yes, thank you for sticking by us. We truly did everything we could to
> > make this a success, and I'm so sorry it didn't work out. On a personal
> > note, thank you to the rest of the *Linux Journal* team. Not being able
> to
> > work with all of you and chat with you is going
> > to be the hardest part of all of this by far.
> >
> > If you want to keep in touch, you can find me at
> > https://social.librem.one/@kyle on Mastodon and
> > https://twitter.com/@kylerankin
> > on Twitter.
> >
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  you must first invent the universe."
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
    (Who can watch the watchmen?)
    -- from the Satires of Juvenal

"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them."
    -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
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