Linux Bug #1: Bad Documentation

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 15:11 18/11/2009
Linux Bug #1: Bad Documentation: "The Internet and Google enable laziness in FOSS development because they make it too easy to abdicate the job of proper documentation to 'The community.' Telling users and potential contributors to use Google, mailing lists, and forums is not documentation. It's a way to guarantee having fewer users, unhappy users, and fewer contributors. Let me share with you how I spent much of the past week. (Lately I've been spending a lot of time wrestling with application problems; this is just one example"