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...concern had nothing to do with the way Kinsley appeared to be flirting with doom by regularly needling his boss in his "readme" column. ("Have it killed," Bill Gates orders Kinsley in a recent column. "You mean, 'Have him killed,'" Kinsley replies, referring to the author of a Slate article. "No, you fools," Gates shrieks. "Kill the piece! Kill the piece!") I suspect such stuff is seen at Microsoft headquarters as a necessary evil, a way for Kinsley to demonstrate Slate's independence...
...true source of my angst was the apostasy that Kinsley has long threatened and was at last poised to commit. Come February, Slate would cease being like nearly everything else on the Net: free. Slate devotees who wanted to keep reading its weekly mix of news and political commentary would be charged $19.95 a year...
...really going to make people pay?" I blurted, some might say hysterically, as Kinsley sat down at a waterfront restaurant...
...Some people think it's immoral," he acknowledged. "Clearly, it's going to be a challenge." But yes, he was hoping to persuade at least 100,000 readers to pay up before the end of the year. That would have been something of a miracle, given that by Kinsley's estimate, only 50,000 to 90,000 people read his clever 'zine gratis. What if his readers fled? How long would Microsoft let Slate live? "I haven't been told specifically," Kinsley said, calm as custard, "but everything I've heard says Microsoft won't pull the plug precipitately...
...could hardly touch my morel-sauced salmon, so fixated was I on the dilemma he had placed us in. As the cut-rate Kinsley, I would have to start charging Netly News hounds--what? Nine dollars and ninety-five cents? No way. I happen to know Netly News readers believe in the free lunch. Some have even asked me for small loans...