On Jun 5, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Joel Fernandes wrote: > >>>> sorry, but that's just not going to happen. ever. if the >>>> general impression here is that, for a donation of five bucks, >>>> you expect to get unfettered access to my personal attention, >>>> then we have massively different views of how the world works. >>> >>> Well, 5 bucks was just an example. You can ask more, obviously... >>> But the problem is the same: if you want to make money, you have >>> to offer something more than well-written docs. >> >> Offer more like what? I think $5 for a set of well written tutorials >> for a beginning kernel programmer is really good. Robert's material >> is quite in detail and its not easy to write stuff like that for >> free > > thanks, joel, i appreciate it but, at this point, i suspect i'm > going to end up dropping the idea. when people start thinking that a > five dollar donation gives them the right to start suggesting what i > should write and how much i should write and what kind of personal > attention they should get for their five bucks, what we're dealing > with here is an astonishingly disproportionate sense of entitlement.
What? OMG, I never said that... Let me explain my position... 1) I appreciate your job and your tutorials. I have read some and I think it is a fantastic work. 2) I think that the donation could be a good job for making money from those tutorials. 3) I would be willing to pay 5 bucks to have updated material about kernel programming 4) I would pay much more to have more That's it... You misunderstood me, totally. I'm sorry if I was not so clear in the first reply. -- Carlo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
