Re: [ossig] Do we need a local Linux Magazine?

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:05 +0800, Nur Hussein wrote:
> Ooh neat. I bet you'll find contributing authors in here. What would
> be your focus though? For newbies? Beginner-to-intermediate, like
> Linux Journal? I think I'd be interested if I can write-in an
> occasional article.

Don't authors expect money? And at RM10 a pop, with a CD, what do you
think an author is going to get?

Gratis stuff is fine and dandy, but I don't think that mentality is
ingrained in the Malaysian mind. Giving away isn't as "hip" it'd seem.
Let me attribute it to culture :->
-- 
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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