How LWN is faring in 2025

Let's just donate or subscribe because something like LWN must be kept alive at all costs.

People all around me seem to be cutting back on discretionary spending. These aren’t lwn subscribers, just normal people leading average lives, but I extrapolate that lwn subscribers are in the same boat.

Superb publication for anyone into free/open source software. You could do worse than get your employer to get a group subscription...

&gt; Further attacks on global trade could make it more difficult for us to accept payments from outside the country, even when the buyer is willing.<p>Is this because of retaliatory tarrifs or is the US taxing services as part of the tarrifs? Would setting up a subsidiary help work around this?

Is this backlash against the US or indications of a recession that is starting?

&gt; that article feels like a distant memory, markets are falling,<p>That&#x27;s incorrect.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sp-500-liberation-day-record-376d6e5d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sp-500-liberation-day-recor...</a>

Subscribed. All this money I’m saving boycotting spineless American companies is coming in handy.<p>If LWN is worth $16 a month, and it is, then so is The Atlantic, ProPublica, etc. We collectively need to make a habit of financially supporting actual journalism and doing so loudly.

They manage to pay Linus 1.5 million a year, spare me