Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died

Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by yerself on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:41PM (#16950595)

You must pay to read about a great man who's vision went beyond money and to the core of humanity. Paywalls suck.

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Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by _jal on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:46PM (#16950609)

Official org announcement: https://journal.burningman.org/2018/04/news/official-announc...

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Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by alex_young on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:44PM (#16950601)

NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/28/606801096...

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Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by SamReidHughes on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:55PM (#16950628)

You can read about him for free elsewhere.

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Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by yerself on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:02AM (#16950647)

I realize there are other ways to read about him. I've received the email, posts, messages. I don't like that there is a paywall for an obituary. For an article like "Top 10 most popular puppies" I understand the paywall, who doesn't want to look at puppies? But the death of a person that has affected so many people's lives, like mine, why is there a paywall?

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Re:Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died by Aloha on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:09AM (#16950662)

Quality journalism costs money.

Someone had to be paid to write the obit, someone was paid to edit it, someone was paid to put it online, the servers cost money, so does the power, so does the connectivity and other infrastructure to put it online - none of this is free - heck, 30 years ago, you would have needed to buy a paper to read it.

Do I like the rates the NYT charges? no, I'd be happy to pay 5 dollars a month so I can access the top 5 newspapers of record though.

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