[Wftl-lug] No more TUX Magazine

[Kelley Jernigan]

They lost me when they dropped Marcel and when they refunded my paid 
subscription.
Personally I prefer to have hard copies of my magazines.

Kelley Jernigan


>From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The WFTL LUG <wftl-lug at salmar.com>
>To: The WFTL LUG <wftl-lug at salmar.com>
>Subject: Re: [Wftl-lug] No more TUX Magazine
>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:22:41 -0500
>
>Speaking from a personal perspective, "Who cares???!!???"  They lost me
>when they dumped Marcel.
>
>I *did* subscribe to the first issue because Marcel had input into that.
>  However, the registration process annoyed was another thing that
>annoyed me.  You couldn't subscribe unless you input a job title.  "For
>Pete's sake", it was supposed to be a magazine for newbies, so who cares
>what the job title was *and* do you need a job title to read a Linux
>magazine?.  Besides, I know for a fact because I have seen letters to
>the editor in other Linux magazines and I know that there are people
>that are incarcerated that read Linux magazines.  So, what were these
>people supposed to use as a job title, "Jailbird"?
>
>After Marcel was severed, *everything* in my opinion deteriorated.  The
>website was lively with good input when Marcel was at the helm and that
>was deteriorated rapidly when Marcel was gone!
>
>Thank heaven Marcel still writes the Cooking Column for LJ or that
>publication would lose me too!
>
>I'm sitting here killing myself laughing because I think it looks good
>on the Tux people to see the magazine go down the poop shoot!  (Sorry, I
>know many will not agree with me, but I've been annoyed ever since the
>gave Marcel the boot - and in a not very nice way, I might add!  I
>honestly don't know what the content beyond the first issue was because
>I personally boycotted the magazine because of the way they treated 
>Marcel!)
>
>Okay, so now I'll get down off my high horse ... many will not agree
>with me, but I *am* entitled to an opinion, just as other people are
>entitled to theirs! :-)
>
>Take care all,
>
>Colleen
>
>
>Marcel Gagne wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > In case anyone is curious, TUX Magazine has ceased publication. Some of 
>you
> > will remember that I helped create TUX and that I was the Editor in 
>Chief for
> > the first issue. Beyond the first few months of TUX and its first issue, 
>I
> > have not been associated with the magazine in any way, so I can't tell 
>you
> > any more than what you will see at the following URL.
> >
> >      http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000254
> >
> > An LJ (and TUX) reader sent me an email last night with this 
>information. He
> > also included the text from another email, from TUX Magazine, that 
>informed
> > readers with paid subscriptions of their options (refund or an 
>electronic
> > subscription to Linux Journal).
> >
> > That's all I have on this one.
> >
> > Take care out there.
> >
>
>
>--
>
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