A journalist can be a technical writer
A journalist can be a technical writer
Posted Feb 2, 2006 15:37 UTC (Thu) by The_Flatlander (guest, #19245)In reply to: A journalist is NOT a technical writer by guybar
Parent article: OSDL and the kernel community
Ummmm... you should search for your [humble] editor's name on, say, Amazon.com, I believe you'll find that along with two other folks he's written the standard text on Linux Device Drivers. I've read it, and I would not rate it as great journalism, but it is a *fine* bit of technical documentation. (It's well written, approachable, logically laid out; it is arguably perfect.)
I suppose your point is that he could not say, for example, if he was in their employ, that the Directors of OSDL are a bunch of numb-skulls, and you could well be right. On the other hand, I bet he could and would never-the-less find ways to be honest with us.
The Flatlander