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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!gate2.internet-eireann.ie!news.internet-eireann.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD really free? Date: 20 Jun 1995 13:00:31 GMT Organization: Internet Eireann Lines: 21 Message-ID: <JKH.95Jun20140031@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> References: <073303Z20061995@anon.penet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.internet-eireann.ie In-reply-to: an95671@anon.penet.fi's message of Tue, 20 Jun 1995 07:29:32 UTC It is ture that the binary and source code of FreeBSD is free from the Internet, but what about documentation? There is no complete manual, tutorial, etc. that can be found in the Net, and the developer of FreeBSD recommends a book that is sold commercially. We're working on such documentation, believe me. It's just not easy to make progress in this area quite so fast as Linux has, given that we've haven't got a user base anywhere near as large. Anyone interested in _helping_ this happen should send mail to doc@freebsd.org and see how they can assist the FreeBSD Doc Project; there are all kinds of things that need doing! For a glimpse of our current progress, see also http://www.freebsd.org. We're a volunteer organization, remember, and it's far more constructive to pitch in and help than to comment on the lack of some feature and expect someone else to volunteer in your place. John Fieber, the head of the doc project, is doing a great job but he can't do it all alone! Jordan