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> More polite emails, more feedback and less emails asking for support. Obviously. If I were to run a restaurant I would rather choose/open as expensive as I c
by qwerty456127 6y ago
> More polite emails, more feedback and less emails asking for support.
Obviously. If I were to run a restaurant I would rather choose/open as expensive as I could so I wouldn't have to deal with people without proper manners and education sufficient to appreciate my fine culinary skills /semi-sarcastic
By the way. Here had already been some posts by free software authors devastated by rude and ignorant people demanding support and/or bullying them by e-mail. I find it very important for all the authors (regardless of whether they code/write for free or for serious money) to learn to just ignore (without any emotional response) the correspondence from this kind of people. You don't alienate them this way, they already got what they are eligible for for free or for their money, personal support should be a premium, for nice people only :-) Yet, there actually are many nice people for whom $100 (let alone $200) per book is a way too much. Some of them even living in the US, not necessarily in an utterly poor country.
- ianai 6y agoMaybe a rent option?
- qwerty456127 6y agoNo, the idea of rental of digital content is artificial and plain ridiculous, as is the idea of dividing the Internet into countries.
- ianai 6y agoExcept that textbook rentals have been a thing since before the internet.
- qwerty456127 6y agoIndeed. That was before the Internet. Many things were before something yet would look bizarre (which doesn't necessarily imply completely impossible) today.
- ianai 6y agoActually textbook rentals are probably even more used now with higher costing textbooks. Yes you can still rent textbooks.
- qwerty456127 6y agoSure, this is a well-known problem. Sooner or later this bullshit business model will be eliminated.