From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maynard Wright Subject: Re: OT: World Radio Online Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:23:13 -0700 Message-ID: <201110200623.14208.m-wright@eskimo.com> References: <20111020123209.GD31005@n0nb.us> Reply-To: linuxham-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoogroups.com; s=lima; t=1319117078; bh=lqNNxJu+k18HOAad0dE5V2RwpVh9ExihNrUcT7o+Alk=; h=Received:Received:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Sender:X-Apparently-To:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:To:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:Message-Id:X-Originating-IP:From:X-Yahoo-Profile:Sender:MIME-Version:Mailing-List:Delivered-To:List-Id:Precedence:List-Unsubscribe:Date:Subject:Reply-To:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=olwGyftOtDEMUcKsxepjnTO5LpnkBgM/U53BtqX44FtCbSPyjAWS1oDaJzveywwSDD5RGMAunToleTFgMOsP5KbJVdMtuF1AstgeKTqUk2s/LR4VBORQgtqOOeQsuMJt In-Reply-To: <20111020123209.GD31005-/4qmxAYkJys@public.gmane.org> Sender: linuxham-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linuxham-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Cc: Ham-Linux , Linux Hams , Hamlib Developers I agree. Since I use Linux only and do not have Flash, I'll not be a potential customer of theirs. 73, Maynard W6PAP On Thursday 20 October 2011 05:32:09 Nate Bargmann wrote: > For those of us who have been subscribers to World Radio and then have > viewed it via the downloadable PDF for the past almost three years, the > next issue, November 2011, will revert to paid subscription. In itself > the subscription is not so bad as the way it will be done. WRO will be > hosted by Zinio which only offers us Linux users the ability to view the > content via a Flash plugin. No offline reader is available and even if > it were, the content is in their proprietary format. This is > unacceptable to me and for the first time since January 1984, I will not > receive a new monthly issue of World Radio. > > I'm sure the powers that be at CQ Communications couldn't care less > about me or the few other Linux using hams that enjoyed World Radio, > otherwise a more equitable solution would have been offered. Vendor > lockin is a non-starter in my shack. If a PDF version is offered once > again, I will reconsider but for now I must vote by keeping my wallet > closed. > > 73, de Nate >> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxham/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxham/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: linuxham-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org linuxham-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: linuxham-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/