From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Bargmann Subject: OT: World Radio Online Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:32:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20111020123209.GD31005@n0nb.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ham-Linux , Fldigi List , Linux Hams , Hamlib Developers 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 >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us