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Free news is unsustainable just like free software is unsustainable.
by onedognight 14y ago
Free news is unsustainable just like free software is unsustainable.
- daeken 14y agoNo. He's not saying that there can't be news out there that's free, he's saying that newspapers releasing free content is unsustainable. I, and many others I believe, agree with him. I think that "free news" (whatever that ends up being) will win in the end; newspapers giving away the keys to the castle won't make them win (not that I think anything will).
- ojosilva 14y ago"Free software is unsustainable"? Do you mean all FOSS? Could you expand on that opinion, I haven't seen a whole lot of data out in the web to support this claim.
- scorpioxy 14y agoFree software us unsustainable for a business. To make it work, you'd need money coming in. So your business would be selling support services not the software itself. Free news might be sustainable if a similar model can be found. Donation-driven news articles perhaps? Or more specifically, how about donation-driven investigative reporting? I think that might work but probably wouldn't make anybody rich.
- ohyes 14y agoThat would be an interesting concept. Open source the entire news process so that everything is completely transparent (information gathering to fact checking to distribution process). Call it the gnnews.