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Story: The NY Times discovers the virtues of desktop LinuxTotal Replies: 4
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notbob

Apr 10, 2014
2:45 PM EDT 		I didn't even hafta login. "Amazing". Sounds like there might be a couple OSS advocates lurking in the NYT subterrainia. Dya think we might see an enterprise shift in the NYT's future?
BernardSwiss

Apr 10, 2014
7:58 PM EDT 		@notbob -- Nope. These days the NYT generously allows non-subscribers the privilege of reading 5 articles per month.
notbob

Apr 10, 2014
8:12 PM EDT 		Interesting. How do they know? I don't allow cookies or client side scripts.
BernardSwiss

Apr 10, 2014
9:16 PM EDT 		IP address? Web bugs (ie. 1-pixel transparent GIFs)?

You can generally get around it by coming in from Google (it's the main reason I still have google available, even though it's not my default search engine).
gus3

Apr 11, 2014
3:37 PM EDT 		Blocking by IP address would affect people readers behind a proxied firewall (academia, libraries, coffee shops, etc.).

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