To hop a few pages back, regarding the tutorials. Personally I have a problem with the "must be unpublished" rule and the obscure "freelance agreement". I believe there was a discussion about a similar policy wich was applied when jupmed bought AO. IIRC alot of members had their tuts removed because of that, maybe that's something to think about. I don't think the meager $50 is a problem as people like nokia have shown to be quite willing to write educational texts, but ONLY if they know what will be done with it and if they aren't rstricted to what they do what it afterward.

Personally I have written quite some short articles about computer and information security detailing more on the electronics aspect of it. They have been published (in dutch!) in some random electronics-freak magazine over here. I only had to give them permission to print it, nothing more. I wouldn't mind translating some to english, but I have no incentive to post em on AO.

I'd rather post em on TAZ even as I dropped out of AO, as a community, years ago and I'd rather have the TAZ people like me.