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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: 15 Jun 1995 06:15:03 GMT Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3roj57$l5s@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3rhekp$400@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3ri7d5$133@park.uvsc.edu> <3rl9gf$ps7@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <DA50ux.Krv@midway.uchicago.edu> <3rnmjc$fde@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote: > Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu> writes: > > > > > Even so, I doubt if the approach of having sections written by > > > different authors can lead to a good manual. > > > But he'll settle for it in his operating system. Weird. > > (1) Linux is not "my" system. > (2) Each of the Linux guides is written by a single author. > (3) The guides can all be found at [...] I may be wrong about the intent, but I took it to suggest that it is weird that someone would think that having pieces of software written by different programmers could lead to a good operating system, but having sections of documentation written by different authors could not lead to a good manual. Is that reasonable? Larry