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Comment by roel_v | Hacker News Reader

It makes me sad and fearful for the future of our industry when someone charging the equivalent of a cup of coffee for something that has a multiple of the value of said coffee is met with dozens of complaints about how it should be free, plus people actively trying to sabotage his efforts (sorry to mmphosis if the list of links wasn't meant in that way).

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It's just this audience; hackers who bill their clients $75 / hr will spend an hour trying to avoid paying $3 for something online that they want, while sitting in a coffee shop and drinking a latte and a muffin they just paid $8 for. It makes no sense.

It's not the money that matters to a hacker, it's the accomplishment of surpassing a tangible value that does.

What does "surpassing a tangible value" mean?

I don't feel the list of links are sabotaging the work at all, the author has stated that all the articles are still available in their original locations. The value in this has always been unique presentation and a print version, not in the article content.

That said their is some small value in content selection, which the links to some extent undermine.

No, the links don't actually really sabotage the work; but I cannot help but interpreting the posting of the links that way. I mean, the site has a list of the articles, with links to the articles; why not post a link to that? From the comments to the list of links, I also derive that I'm not the only one seeing it that way. It's also why I put the up-front apology, since I couldn't tell for sure how it was meant...

> (sorry to mmphosis if the list of links wasn't meant in that way).

the list of original articles is right here on the site in the table of contents. So i don't see how mmphosis reposting it here is sabotaging ..

I just want to point out that this does not apply to a lot of people outside the US of A. 24.5 USD for a single edition of a magazine is a lot of money in INR. And like many others, I don't find 3 USD worth of value in the pdf. The printed magazine will still be in my bedside rack 3 years down the line. Pdfs are more use, file and forget things.

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