[Ham-Linux] OT: World Radio Online

[Nate Bargmann]

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