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Your point is valid, but I think you misunderstand how, say, Ars Technica works.

First, Ars Technica is owned by a large company. They have loads of money, and because of this, they retain a large staff of writers. This in turn allows specific people to focus on specific subjects, thus becoming knowledgeable in said subjects (Ars also hires people specifically because of their knowledge). So, they have two people (at least) covering nothing but Apple. They have one guy doing nothing but Microsoft. They have one guy doing nothing but open source/Linux related stuff.

On top of that, they have the money to hire several 3rd party writers to write top-notch stuff. Since Ars' parent company also owns Wired, articles by Wires also appear on Ars, further increasing the site's workforce.

We have nothing of the sort. I have to do everything, and thus, I have to be a jack of all trades, master of none - and I get blasted when I make some obscure mistake in some obscure topic somewhere. Or, I get complains when we don't cover topic Xyz as in-depth as Ars does.

The comparison simply isn't fair.

I'd *love* for OSNews to have the kind of financial resources Ars has, so we could hire additional writers and editors, so I wouldn't have to cover such an immense variety of topics. In fact, and I'm not being arrogant here (well okay, a little bit), but there aren't a whole lot of people capable of covering the wide variety of topics OSNews covers, day in, day out the way that I do. I've been doing this for over six years now, and I'm still learning.

If we had that kind of money, we would be able to have specific writers capable of focussing on specific topics. We'd have a wide variety of opinions plastered over the front page, more items, which would be moe in-depth because the writers in question would only have to focus on one topic.

In the meantime, I would be able to focus on my own preferred topics, and just become one of several writers. Of course, I'd also want to be the one managing the site's news stream as a whole (David does the actual management), simply because of my experience.

I'd love for OSNews to be like that. In fact, as you can discern from the detail in which I describe it, it's somewhat of a dream of mine. However, money don't grow on trees, advertising dun make you rich, and as such, we'll just have to make do.

I think we both understand each others' views and I'll give you credit for writing this article even though you didn't really have to.

There's plenty of Google/MS/Apple fans out there right now so you'll always get some backlash depending on what you write.