오늘자 lwn.net(Linux Weekly News)에 나온 소식입니다. 약 4년 동안 정말로 알찬 정보를 제공해 왔던 lwn이 재정 문제를 해결하지 못해 결국 문을 닫게 되었다고 하는군요.

"Over the last several months we at LWN have looked at numerous ways of funding this operation. It takes people to write LWN, and it takes a lot of their time; it is not something that is easily handled on "off hours." Those people really would like to be paid for their time, and that is something which has not happened here for quite a while. Various approaches to bringing in money have been tried; the most successful of all was simply asking LWN readers for donations to keep the operation going. But we have not succeeded in raising even a fraction of the required funds.

Other options (such as subscriptions) have been considered in depth, but there is little promise (and much aggravation) to be found in that direction.

So the time has come to face the reality of the situation: what LWN is offering is not what the market is willing to pay for at this time. It's time to find something else to do.

The end result is that next week's LWN Weekly Edition (August 1) will be the last. This has not been an easy decision to make, to say the least. But, barring some sort of last minute miracle (do contact us if you have one, please!), we do not see any alternative.

We'll have more information next week on things like content tarballs and releasing the site source. Some parts of LWN may yet go on in a different form as well. But this particular journey is coming to an end. It has been a great ride."

4년이라는 기간동안 lwn에 쌓여온 컨텐트들의 tarball과 사이트 소스 등을 마지막 발간일인 다음주에 함께 제공하겠다고 하는군요. 개인적으로 lwn이 처음 생겼을 때부터 거의 한주도 빼놓지 않고 다 읽었고 그곳의 관리자가 얼마나 열심인지 매번 감탄하곤 했는데 결국 문을 닫고야 마는군요. 아쉽지만 그동안 수고해준 그사람들에게 박수를 보냅니다....