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Proposal is for a Haskell resource that I would find interesting/useful, maintained as a freely accessible resource. Should the person making this possible cha
by hardlianotion 11y ago
Proposal is for a Haskell resource that I would find interesting/useful, maintained as a freely accessible resource.
Should the person making this possible charge reasonably for their time? Yes, in my opinion.
- lamby 11y agoI can see the reason for adding some kind of anchor to the figure being raised but the value I would extract from this resource is completely orthogonal to whether it was written whilst living in Monaco or Mumbai. Putting it another way, for almost any other product on HN we would point out that one should price based on perceived value, so I find it curious that we are so happy with some kind of "labour theory" here. (Of course, there are other side-benefits to simply being an author of a book, so it might be worth discounting)
- amelius 11y ago> Should the person making this possible charge reasonably for their time? Yes, in my opinion. But why should it even matter? When you buy a car, do you also ask if the engineers received a fair salary?
- hardlianotion 11y agoWell said. That was what was gong through my mind as I wrote, but it came out wrong. If it is useful, you can ask for money for it and folk can pay if they like it.