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Quotes of the week
For US$10000, I'll be happy to hand-deliver a one-of-a-kind
hand-crafted and shrink-wrapped unit of the product for the
operating system of your choice, complete with manuals in multiple
languages that I bought off Amazon. I'll also include a surprise
toy inside.
-- Matt Mackall
Or you can download it for free off our website like everyone else, but then you won't get the toy.
It is important to recognise that improving the state of design in
GNOME isn’t just the responsibility of designers.
-- Allan Day
If you like man pages and want to improve them, then work on that.
It doesn't have anything to do with with contributing to glibc, but
there are lots of places you can choose to contribute.
-- Roland McGrath(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 26, 2012 14:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's dispiriting, but understandable, to see that Roland considers arguments like 'nobody ever uses the glibc manual, thus it is useless' to be insufficient reason to encourage contributions to the documentation that everybody actually uses. (It's understandable because he was closely involved with the glibc manual's creation, so probably feels some attachment to it.)
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