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By Jonathan Corbet January 18, 2022 January 22, 2022 will be the 24th anniversary of the publication of the first LWN.net Weekly Edition. A lot has happened in the intervening years; the Linux community has grown immeasurably, and LWN has grown with it. Later this year will also be the 20th anniversary of the adoption of our subscription-based model, which has sustained LWN ever since. There is a change coming for our subscribers that will, with luck, help to set up LWN to thrive in the coming years.
The nominal price for an LWN subscription is $7 per month, a price that has remained unchanged since 2010. That $7 buys a lot less now than it did twelve years ago. Your editor is reliably informed by the Internet that inflation in the US has been just under 28% from 2010 until the middle of 2021; that rate doesn't include the last few months. Prices for some things, most notably health insurance in the US, have increased by rather more than that.
