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On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:21:04 -0500 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I used an example of Linode paying $100 for documentation. |
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Ok. So, this is probably where we got derailed. |
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Its not clear *who* is paying for *what*. |
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The outlay gave the impression that it was creating an LWN-esque |
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newsletter, which would take income from subscribers who read it. |
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Whereas that suggest there is no such association, and the only changing |
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hands of money is "somebody" pays an author to write the article, which |
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everyone else then receives for free. |
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And the only source of income is the people requesting articles. |
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You've covered the "<something at gentoo>" -> "<person who writes article>" |
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part of the dynamic, but where the money comes from to make this happen, |
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and the scheme under which the money is obtained is not entirely clear. |
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Looking back I can see now you didn't write that as such, its just how the framing |
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turned out: |
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"Paying for news" -> "who pays for news"? -> "subscribers pay for news" |
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( This is not an invitation to enter a discussion about how language happens, |
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but to give insight onto how confusion was created in attempt to prevent it happening |
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in future, and to recalibrate the direction of further conversation ) |
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In short though: Depsite how much you write, I seldom find you "clear" to read. |
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And the more you write in attempt to rectify this problem, the worse it will be. |
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