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Thanks for the nice words, Ben. The curious can have a look at his articles at https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestIndex/#Hoyt_Ben https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestInde

by corbet 5y ago

Thanks for the nice words, Ben. The curious can have a look at his articles at https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestIndex/#Hoyt_Ben https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestIndex/#Hoyt_Ben . When's the next one coming? :) Meanwhile, I'm not going anywhere quite yet, but we're definitely looking for writer/editor types who would like to be a part of LWN and perhaps carry it forward in the distant future. Please drop us a note at lwn@lwn.net if you'd like to talk.

blagie 5y ago
The truth of the matter is that, from my perspective, LWN is you. You're a brilliant writer. You've chosen to devote your life to documenting the Linux kernel project. That's an important piece of world history. There are auxiliary folks around you, but crediting them is a little like taking R.R. Martin or JR Tolkien, and saying there's a team, since you need: - script writers for the movies; - editors of the books; - typesetters; or - whoever makes trinkets from their worlds for Amazon. Yes, they're all important, but they're not all equally important. At the heart of it, what you've given us is: - Documentation of a history of brilliant technical insight and work by other folks - Documentation of the growth and evolution of one of the first and most successful open communities. It's a gift to the world. Thank you for that. My hope is that whenever you retire -- and ideally before -- there's a plan for /deeply/ archiving LWN. For example, printing out a few hundred copies, and having them archived in secure places, and making it into a book in print. Tossing it onto archive.org. Etc. My other hope is also that it will eventually all be open-licensed in some way, shape, or form, once the economic value is more limited.
- corbet 5y ago
  Addressing just that last point: all of our content is CC-BY 4.0 now, with the sole exception of the handful of articles behind the paywall at any given time. Thanks for the kind words!

by corbet 5y ago

blagie 5y ago

The truth of the matter is that, from my perspective, LWN is you. You're a brilliant writer. You've chosen to devote your life to documenting the Linux kernel project. That's an important piece of world history. There are auxiliary folks around you, but crediting them is a little like taking R.R. Martin or JR Tolkien, and saying there's a team, since you need: - script writers for the movies; - editors of the books; - typesetters; or - whoever makes trinkets from their worlds for Amazon. Yes, they're all important, but they're not all equally important. At the heart of it, what you've given us is: - Documentation of a history of brilliant technical insight and work by other folks - Documentation of the growth and evolution of one of the first and most successful open communities. It's a gift to the world. Thank you for that. My hope is that whenever you retire -- and ideally before -- there's a plan for /deeply/ archiving LWN. For example, printing out a few hundred copies, and having them archived in secure places, and making it into a book in print. Tossing it onto archive.org. Etc. My other hope is also that it will eventually all be open-licensed in some way, shape, or form, once the economic value is more limited.

corbet 5y ago
Addressing just that last point: all of our content is CC-BY 4.0 now, with the sole exception of the handful of articles behind the paywall at any given time. Thanks for the kind words!