Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] How non-programmers use documentation.
From: Greg Turpin (gregturp_AT_home.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 06:51:33 EEST
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 10:45 am, you wrote:
> Alexander Ehlert wrote:
> > > >16. Non-programmers that I talked to have never sent a bug report or a
> > > >feature request to a software company. The idea of sending one
> > > > directly to a programmer or a technical writer was a completely
> > > > foreign concept.
> >
> > I consider this a bad attitude in open source land.
>
> certainly.
> maybe there should be an extra section in each readme to inform
> newbies how essential bug reports are, and that they are required
> "payment" for the use of free software.
> this is something the distro vendors should take into account more.
>
> i use suse, and it's dead easy to install, so yes, you can go from
> windows to linux in a day. they have three or four printed books in
> their package, but it still lacks an extensive chapter on
> open-source culture (they do print the gpl, but who would want to
> read that ?).
Tell them to read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
: )
Good book for understanding open-source.
Greg
> are the other distributors doing any better in this respect ?
>
> jörn
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