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I know that I have some rights over it, just that when I had published the book and had charged some $ and notified the reddit community of Go, I got severely d

I know that I have some rights over it, just that when I had published the book and had charged some $ and notified the reddit community of Go, I got severely downvoted because probably they saw it as click bait article driven to earn $ (despite the fact that you could just slide the $ thing on Leanpub to the left and download it for free) Thank you for your advice. I also made a screencast for the book, I am divided as to where to publish it, youtube or udemy or somewhere else.

johnwheeler 10y ago
that sounds like more of a function of reddit than amoral behavior. ultimately you worked hard on something, and there's no shame in seeking recompense (pretty standard whether you're doing something commercial or open source)
- thewhitetulip 10y ago
  Thank you! As a person who learned programming entirely from FOSS books and things, I felt immoral to charge for my tutorial/ebook. Do you have any thoughts about the video series I made on the same ebook's content? Where does it make sense to publish? youtube or udemy or somewhere else?
  - johnwheeler 10y ago
    i dunno. i'm not much into go. if i was going to do systems programming, i'd probably look to rust since one of my big programming influences uses it (armin ronacher). incidentally, i created a tutorial series on programming the amazon echo (alexatutorial.com). my tutorials are pretty dry, but i'm going to probably try and create more content and start charging for it. i always admired jon lindquist of egghead.io. he started self distributing and has built a little empire. same with geoffrey grosenbach of peepcode later acquired by pluralsight.
    - thewhitetulip 10y ago
      All the best for the alexa tutorial! I use Go for writing servers and not for systems programming, the lang was initially focused on systems programming, but it has now become a general purpose language, python - C bridge!

johnwheeler 10y ago

that sounds like more of a function of reddit than amoral behavior. ultimately you worked hard on something, and there's no shame in seeking recompense (pretty standard whether you're doing something commercial or open source)

thewhitetulip 10y ago
Thank you! As a person who learned programming entirely from FOSS books and things, I felt immoral to charge for my tutorial/ebook. Do you have any thoughts about the video series I made on the same ebook's content? Where does it make sense to publish? youtube or udemy or somewhere else?
- johnwheeler 10y ago
  i dunno. i'm not much into go. if i was going to do systems programming, i'd probably look to rust since one of my big programming influences uses it (armin ronacher). incidentally, i created a tutorial series on programming the amazon echo (alexatutorial.com). my tutorials are pretty dry, but i'm going to probably try and create more content and start charging for it. i always admired jon lindquist of egghead.io. he started self distributing and has built a little empire. same with geoffrey grosenbach of peepcode later acquired by pluralsight.
  - thewhitetulip 10y ago
    All the best for the alexa tutorial! I use Go for writing servers and not for systems programming, the lang was initially focused on systems programming, but it has now become a general purpose language, python - C bridge!