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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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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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