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User manuals for free software

User manuals for free software

Posted Sep 25, 2008 23:47 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: User manuals for free software by sbergman27
Parent article: User manuals for free software

as the devs, who felt that writing documentation was below their station, talked amongst themselves about how cool release x+1 was going to be.

I don't think they felt writing documentation was below their station; they felt it was boring. As they get paid the same to do boring writing as to design and code the cool new release, the choice is obvious.


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User manuals for free software

Posted Oct 2, 2008 3:53 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

And answering the same question about some underdocumented piece of the API for the twenty-first time this month is less boring? ;)

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