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  From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>
  To  : stephen white <spwhite@chariot.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:25:41 -0800 (PST)

Re: Contributing (Was: 'Linux is too much like Windows')

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, stephen white wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 11:16 AM, David Lloyd wrote:
> > Let me end by saying this: Linux is not a panacea. It's not a cure all.
> > Its documentation is not bad. People who state a "blanket statement"
> > that its documentation is all bad are missing the point.

Some would take it as an opportunity to contribute.
 
> After 10 years of beating my head against Linux's documentation brick 
> wall, I have to disagree. The documentation issue is what drove me into 
> buying a Mac.
> 
> Go to apple.com/support and start browsing through the help files, 
> knowledgebase, support, documentation and detailed instructions to see 
> just how pallid and inadequate free documentation is in comparison. 
> It's not the quality of the individual documentation that is the 
> problem (eg, Apache is fairly well documented), it's the variable 
> quality of documentation across the board.
> 
> If I bump into a problem, I never know whether it's going to be a "HI! 
> HAPPY HAPPY! HELP IS HERE!" answer, or whether I'm going to have to 
> wade through the source code from a 1984 variety of Brainfuck. This 
> lack of predictability is like walking through a minefield where a 
> perfectly rational decision like "let's group those hard drives" could 
> be a walk in the park or a trip to hospital.
> 
> --
>    spwhite@chariot.net.au
> 
> 

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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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