TUX magazine is going be be Not-free

今天收到一封通知的EMail...

This week you'll notice a change in TUX. It will move from being a
free digital magazine to a paid one. Your current complimentary
subscription will be extended for 12 issues (expiring after the
July 2007 issue). That being said, this is just a note to let you
know what's happening -- there's nothing at all you need to do
today. Your free subscription will continue to be delivered to you
as you had originally requested.

When your subscription does expire, we will send you a notice
offerring you an opportunity to renew at our paid rate of just
$9.95/12 issues. In addition, since you've been a long-time (and
apprecited!) loyal subscriber, we'll make certain to offer you a
very special gift if you do decide to renew at that time. Again
though, there's nothing for you to do today. Your free subscription
to TUX will continue through July 2007.

We started TUX in 2004 because we felt strongly it was a needed
publication within the Linux community (many of our Linux Journal
readers would write in asking for exactly this, and truthfully, many
of our own staff members wanted to learn more about their Linux
desktops also). We invested revenues from our other publication,
Linux Journal, to make it possible. We've seen it as a labor of
love. Today, however, 15 issues later, we need to turn TUX into a
self-supporting publication and that's why we are asking for our
readers' help.

We promise to put more heart and effort into TUX with this
conversion. In the coming months, you can expect several new topics
and article series introduced by TUX Editor Kevin Shockey.

Please let us know how we can make TUX better for you. We strongly
encourage your feedback and suggestions; please send to..

大意是說..感謝你對TUX支持，過去TUX是由LJ的熱心支援，所以能免費訂閱。
現在，TUX要收錢了，但是由於你過去對TUX的支持，將免費再送你一年，到2007 July。

之後，會通知您將要過期了，並且提供你一年12其9.95美金的優惠。

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TUX其實做得蠻不錯的，跟LJ有很好的市場區隔。一個近技術，一個近使用。

但是最近LJ上的技術文章漸漸變少了，漸漸向TUX靠近，不曉得是因為換了主編，還是Linux真的越來越容易了？

我以前以為TUX就是LJ從投稿文章中，選出比較近使用者的部份，集合成的一份雜誌。所以不用收錢。

但現在看來...大概Linux和OpenSource越來越靠近一般大眾，這一類型的讀者也越來越多，所以TUX收錢也有利基存在。


還是不錯啦，看到OpenSource的相關產業可以賺錢。我們才會有雜誌可以定，不然，向以前的天充一樣...多可惜。