Re: System i Network ProVIP (was Re: Reading XML with an RPG program)

Hans,

Actually I agree with you. "Experts-Exchange" is a pay site that I
find particularly annoying.

But I don't classify System i Network as a pay site. I'm paying for a
subscription to the magazine. While it's gotten thinner over the
years, it still contains enough worthwhile material, IMHO. The fact
that some of that material is web-only content doesn't really matter.

I'm yet to see any free articles go to quite the same depth. IBM
System mag close closest, I suppose (though I can't stand the web
site), but mcpressonline doesn't usually.

Charles


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Hans Boldt <hans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles Wilt wrote:

It always surprises me when posters here express dismay that articles
require a ProVIP membership.

If you make $50k a year, a membership is equivalent to 6hrs of your
time.  Is that really so hard to justify?

Honestly, I pay for mine out of my own pocket.  It's easier and that
way the everything is mine.

Charles Wilt

Let me add my two-cents worth. Look, practically every day I need to
look up some information on the web. There's nothing more annoying than
to go to a site that promises an answer only to find that the answer is
available only to paying members. YOU might think that a cost of 6 hours
salary isn't much to spend, but imagine multiplying that by all the
other excellent sources of information out there. In my opinion,
considering the quantity of good information available for free on-line,
there's absolutely no need to visit any pay site.

Cheers! Hans

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