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Thus spake Paul de Vrieze on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:33:48PM CDT |
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> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 17:55, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > <soapbox> |
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> > To say the least, Eric is no wilting violet when it comes to Linux |
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> > software, but he pointed to something that's should be of concern to all of |
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> > us. The open source equivalent of proprietary software's "tech support" |
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> > that doesn't support is the FOSS project dev group that doesn't understand |
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> > the needs of the non-dev community. Look at the docs on such an otherwise |
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> > very useful project and you'll find a changelog, an API description, a FAQ |
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> > with questions the average user would _never_ think to ask, prolly a |
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> > prominent discussion of the license. I've run into plenty of projects |
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> > which describe themselves in terms such as "project x is an upgrade to |
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> > project y, and incorporates the evorgutated framus object framework from |
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> > project z". Duh? </soapbox> |
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> Reminds me of the openldap project. There is no documentation whatsoever on |
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> how to actually operate the darn thing beyond the very basics. (Well some |
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> independent, incomplete, howto's you find after some looking around) |
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Gentoo had an openldap setup HOWTO a while back, and I really wanted to make |
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it work, and dug into the HOWTO. Unfortunately, the HOWTO was pretty loose |
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around the edges and at least partially as a result of a bug report I filed, |
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it got pulled from the website. |
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