18 Nov
2018
18 Nov
'18
2:02 a.m.
Surely then, your remarks are a more damning
assessment of the Linux manuals, in that the
terrible state of the documentation is now a
result of 'professionals'.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 5:21 AM Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:14:53AM -0700,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
The man page authors / tech writers at Sun were paid to write man
pages, and learned / were taught how to do it well. The Linux stuff is
done by volunteers. You're comparing apples and oranges.
How do we kill this meme? Linux is open to contribution by volunteers
but the overwhelming majority of the work done on the OS for *at least*
the last ten years has been by professionals who are paid to work on
Linux. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous, and anyway I'm not sure
why the OS that powers pacemakers and self-driving car research gets to
be held to a lower standard.
khm