> In that case, why not subscribe? Not the OP, but a possible reason: not all people have credit cards. In fact, the very first thing I did once I finally deci

> In that case, why not subscribe? Not the OP, but a possible reason: not all people have credit cards. In fact, the very first thing I did once I finally decided to get a credit card (which, frankly, is only really necessary to buy things from outside my country; within the country, there are other convenient payment methods) was to subscribe to LWN. Before that day, other than a brief year in which a friend had paid for my LWN subscription with his credit card, I mostly waited the one week to read the paid articles (and, in fact, I'm still subscribed to the LWN mailing list which automatically tells you whenever a paid article becomes free).