On Jun 5, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > whoa, whoa, whoa ... that's going *way* beyond what i was > suggesting. i was proposing that i could produce and provide > well-written kernel programming docs online, write new content on a > reasonably regular basis and make sure i kept all of it up to date. > (i would encourage readers to drop me a note and let me know anything > that needed to be updated or corrected.) in short, i would write and > post, and readers would read and, if they felt like it, donate. That's right... > what you're describing is ridiculously beyond that. you're talking > about personal attention and answering private emails and designing > learning paths and developing evaluation tests? and you expect to get > that for five dollars? > > 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. My 2 cents, -- Carlo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
