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Re:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I... by arriu on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:49PM (#27914416)
Why the down votes? Not everyone on this site has an active subscription and clearly the a author wants his message read. I'm really curious, please respond.
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Re:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:59AM (#27917475)
>clearly the a author wants his message read

More likely the author wants to be paid for his work. If he wanted to offer it for free there are plenty of alternative platforms to publish on.

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Re:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I... by readflaggedcomm on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:37PM (#27934749)
I saw no requests for payment, i only saw a headline without a story. I have no patience to assume why a web site is broken.
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Re:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:17AM (#27947858)
>I saw no requests for payment

It was published in the Boston Globe, a commercial organisation. I think it's a reasonable conclusion that the author gets paid for their work. He has been at the paper at least since 1979 according to the article.

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Re:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I... by readflaggedcomm on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:23PM (#27952108)
It's not reasonable to conclude that going out of my way to pay money will make a page suddenly populate with a story. If there's no offer for more content, I don't assume it's there.
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