[olug] Fwd: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC.

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Mon Aug 12 22:32:03 CDT 2019 

For what it's worth, I replied to the email and got an auto-reply:

On August 7, 2019 *Linux Journal* shut its doors for good. All staff were
laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue in any
capacity. The web site will continue to stay up for the next few weeks,
hopefully longer for archival purposes if we can make it happen.

LinuxJournal.com/digital will be made available shortly for access to all
back issues.

–Linux Journal, LLC

It looks like the LinuxJournal.com/digital site is up - anyone with
scripting and web scraping skill want to download and save the
PDF+Mobi+ePub files in suitably named folders/files?

Dan


On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:25 PM Matthew G. Marsh <olug4mgm at paktronix.com>
wrote:

>
> Upon reading the editorial missive and realizing that all the past
> issues/archives/ebooks are open and available I surmise that their
> contract for the Website runs through the end of August and that this is a
> thinly veiled hint to mirror the site and grab all the goodies...
>
> Anyone have this done? Or in process? I found out to my chagrin that times
> have changed and my OpenSSL is no longer able to talk HTTPS to these
> sites... eh, oh well, maybe see about upgrading and recompiling.
>
> Sad to see this one go. But on the bright side it does show how Linux has
> grown to be the "Unix" with all the attendant multiple sub-specialties,
> methods, partisan choruses, and {gadz,b,m}illions of version and
> distributions. So a single magazine devoted to the "whole" of Linux has
> little commonality from which to proceed.
>
> Personally I am very glad I chose to play with the little freebie I found
> on an Engineering BBS rather than buy a copy of Coherent. It has made a
> world of difference.
>
> As an aside - Coherent was "open sourced" in 2015 - about 20 years after
> the company producing it closed it doors. ;-}
>
> RIP LJ
>
> mgm
>
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Dan Linder wrote:
>
> > Hopefully like last time they will open up the links to the back-catalog
> of
> > issues in PDF/eBook/Mobi format as well as some of the other eBooks they
> > produced.
> >
> > The last time they went out of business they explicitly said that we
> could
> > share back copies of those files with fellow enthusiasts, and at one of
> the
> > meetups I did share the archive I manually made.  Definitely doing that
> > again to appease my digital pack-rat side, but if it turns out the do
> that
> > again I'll update my archive.
> >
> > If I hear anything I'll keep the list informed.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:50 AM Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I did manage to grab the Deep DIve E-book.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:17 AM Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ironically I had been looking for a simple task to brush up on Python
> >>> programming, so I thought I'd setup a recurring script to download the
> >> PDF
> >>> versions of the magazine into my GDrive and store locally.
> >>>
> >>> I guess I can still do that, but the "running monthly" feature is not
> >>> necessary anymore. :(
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:47 PM Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Yes it does.    I hope they release some of the back issues.....
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:27 AM Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Well, this sucks ...again...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> DanL
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >>>>> From: Linux Journal <subs at linuxjournal.com>
> >>>>> Date: Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:44 PM
> >>>>> Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC.
> >>>>> To: DAN at LINDER.ORG <DAN at linder.org>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The Awkward Goodbye
> >>>>> [image: Subscribe Now]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC:*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *On August 7, 2019 Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff
> >>> were
> >>>>> laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue
> >> in
> >>>> any
> >>>>> capacity. The web site will continue to stay up for the next few
> >> weeks,
> >>>>> hopefully longer for archival purposes if we can make it happen.*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *?Linux Journal, LLC*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *Final Letter from the Editor: The Awkward Goodbye*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> by Kyle Rankin
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Have you ever met up with a friend at a restaurant for dinner, then
> >>> after
> >>>>> dinner you both step out to the street and say a proper goodbye, only
> >>>> when
> >>>>> you leave, you find out that you both are walking in the same
> >>> direction?
> >>>> So
> >>>>> now, you get to walk together awkwardly until the true point where
> >> you
> >>>>> part, and then you have another, second goodbye, that's much more
> >>>> awkward.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That's basically this post.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So, it was almost two years ago that I first said goodbye to *Linux
> >>>>> Journal*
> >>>>> and the *Linux Journal* community in my post "So Long and Thanks for
> >>> All
> >>>>> the Bash <
> >> https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-r/
> >>>> ".
> >>>>> That post was a proper goodbye. For starters, it had a catchy title
> >>> with
> >>>> a
> >>>>> pun. The post itself had all the elements of a proper goodbye: part
> >>>>> retrospective, part "Thank You" to the *Linux Journal* team and the
> >>>>> community, and OK, yes, it was also part rant. I recommend you read
> >> (or
> >>>>> re-read) that post, because it captures my feelings about losing
> >> *Linux
> >>>>> Journal* way better than I can muster here on our awkward second
> >>> goodbye.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Of course, not long after I wrote that post, we found out that *Linux
> >>>>> Journal* wasn't dead after all! We all actually had more time
> >> together
> >>>> and
> >>>>> got to work fixing everything that had caused us to die in the first
> >>>> place.
> >>>>> A lot of our analysis of what went wrong and what we
> >>>>> intended to change was captured in my article "What *Linux Journal's*
> >>>>> Resurrection Taught Me about the FOSS Community
> >>>>> <https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-y/>" that
> >> we
> >>>>> posted in our 25th anniversary issue.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So we set to work and things were starting to look very promising.
> >> One
> >>> of
> >>>>> the changes I was particularly excited about was our expanded Deep
> >> Dive
> >>>>> section in each issue. This "long-form journalism" approach to
> >>> technical
> >>>>> writing was something pretty special in the technical world and
> >> coming
> >>>> from
> >>>>> someone who wrote a few Deep Dives of his own, there was something
> >> very
> >>>>> freeing in knowing you could truly give a topic justice without
> >>>> artificial
> >>>>> constraints on page length. You, the readers, and also new writers
> >>>>> responded, and you could feel the new life and new energy in each
> >>> issue.
> >>>>> After dying and being revived, it was finally starting to look like
> >>> some
> >>>>> day soon we would be able to walk on our own.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Unfortunately, we didn't get healthy enough fast enough, and when we
> >>>> found
> >>>>> out we needed to walk on our own strength, we simply couldn't. So
> >> here
> >>> we
> >>>>> are giving our second, much more awkward, goodbye. What happens now?
> >> We
> >>>>> gave each other a proper hug during the first goodbye, do we hug
> >> again
> >>>> this
> >>>>> time? Do we do the hand-shake-that-turns-into-a-single-arm-hug thing?
> >>> Do
> >>>> we
> >>>>> just sort of wave and smile?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It wouldn't be right to say goodbye without acknowledging the
> >> wonderful
> >>>>> *Linux
> >>>>> Journal* community we have been blessed with who have stuck with us
> >>>>> throughout the years and encouraged so much during our first goodbye.
> >>> To
> >>>>> quote from my own recounting of that time:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ultimately, we couldn't keep the lights on. *Linux Journal* announced
> >>>> that
> >>>>> it was shutting down on December 1, 2017. I followed up that
> >>> announcement
> >>>>> with an emotional farewell of my own. If you read that farewell,
> >> you'll
> >>>> see
> >>>>> that somewhere in the middle it changed from a memoir into a
> >> manifesto.
> >>>> My
> >>>>> sadness at seeing something I had worked on for ten years going away
> >>> was
> >>>>> replaced by anger that the Linux community had seemed to lose its
> >> way.
> >>> I
> >>>>> lost my way. I took Linux and FOSS for granted. It became clearer
> >> than
> >>>> ever
> >>>>> to me that while Linux and FOSS had won the battle over the tech
> >>> giants a
> >>>>> decade before, new ones had taken their place in the meantime, and we
> >>>> were
> >>>>> letting them win. Although I had written and spoken about Linux and
> >>> FOSS
> >>>>> for years, and used it personally and professionally, I felt like I
> >>>> hadn't
> >>>>> done enough to support this thing I cared about so much. The death of
> >>>>> *Linux
> >>>>> Journal* was a major factor in my decision to put my money where my
> >>> mouth
> >>>>> was, quit my job, and join Purism so I could work full-time helping
> >> to
> >>>>> forward this cause.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So yeah, I took the news pretty hard. We all took the news pretty
> >> hard,
> >>>> but
> >>>>> where I had just lost a freelance writing gig, all of the core *Linux
> >>>>> Journal* team had just lost their full-time jobs. It was a difficult
> >>>> time,
> >>>>> yet we also were flooded with so much support from you, our readers.
> >>> Some
> >>>>> people contacted us just to tell us how much they loved the magazine
> >>> and
> >>>>> how sorry they were to see it go. Others offered to pay more for
> >> their
> >>>>> subscriptions if that would somehow help. Others still contacted us
> >> to
> >>>> see
> >>>>> if they could develop a fundraising program to keep the magazine
> >>> alive. I
> >>>>> can't stress how much this incredible outpouring of support helped
> >> all
> >>> of
> >>>>> us during this difficult time. Thank you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So yes, thank you for sticking by us. We truly did everything we
> >> could
> >>> to
> >>>>> make this a success, and I'm so sorry it didn't work out. On a
> >> personal
> >>>>> note, thank you to the rest of the *Linux Journal* team. Not being
> >> able
> >>>> to
> >>>>> work with all of you and chat with you is going
> >>>>> to be the hardest part of all of this by far.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you want to keep in touch, you can find me at
> >>>>> https://social.librem.one/@kyle on Mastodon and
> >>>>> https://twitter.com/@kylerankin
> >>>>> on Twitter.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [image: Facebook]
> >>>>> <https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-j/>
> >> [image:
> >>>>> Twitter] <
> >> https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-t/>
> >>>>> [image:
> >>>>> YouTube] <
> >> https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mhjkdyd-jrhdlhhdq-i/>
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> >>>>> Journal or had signed up for one of our products.
> >>>>>
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    (Who can watch the watchmen?)
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    -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
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