Comments on: Tear down this wall http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-10-08/tear-down-this-wall The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Simone Manganelli http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-10-08/tear-down-this-wall#comment-128246 Simone Manganelli Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:12:12 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-10-08/tear-down-this-wall#comment-128246 To be fair, both <a href="http://www.macjournals.com/mdj/mdj_samples.html" rel="nofollow">MDJ</a> and <a href="http://www.macjournals.com/mwj/mwj_samples.html" rel="nofollow">MWJ</a> have some of their more important past issues freely available to the intarwebs, but of course this doesn't include the recent one with the ZFS analysis since it's only a few months old. (The <a href="http://www.macjournals.com/mwj/mwj_samples.html#anchor" rel="nofollow">HFS Primer</a> is an excellent issue.) Unfortunately, it's the age-old trade-off between what to offer for free and how to make money from subscribers so that you can afford to keep publishing the journal. MacFixIt does the exact same thing -- any coverage that's older than 2 days is behind their paywall. This is the only reasonable solution: making older news freely available and current news behind a paywall would be disastrous. Also, I found that the ZFS article was well worth giving MacJournals my name, e-mail, and physical mailing address. To be fair, both MDJ and MWJ have some of their more important past issues freely available to the intarwebs, but of course this doesn't include the recent one with the ZFS analysis since it's only a few months old. (The HFS Primer is an excellent issue.)

Unfortunately, it's the age-old trade-off between what to offer for free and how to make money from subscribers so that you can afford to keep publishing the journal. MacFixIt does the exact same thing -- any coverage that's older than 2 days is behind their paywall. This is the only reasonable solution: making older news freely available and current news behind a paywall would be disastrous.

Also, I found that the ZFS article was well worth giving MacJournals my name, e-mail, and physical mailing address.

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